AlphaFold by DeepMind (Alphabet) is a revolutionary AI system that predicts 3D protein structures from amino acid sequences with near-experimental accuracy — a problem that had stumped scientists for 50 years. AlphaFold 3 extended predictions to DNA, RNA, and small molecules, enabling drug discovery applications. The AlphaFold Protein Structure Database contains over 200 million predicted protein structures and is freely accessible to researchers. It has accelerated research on diseases from cancer to antibiotic resistance.
Stan cen: March 2026