AlphaFold and the demon-duck of doom - Google DeepMind
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Published 2022-09-29
AlphaFold is an AI system developed by Google DeepMind that predicts a protein’s 3D structure from its amino acid sequence.
It took a genuinely multidisciplinary team including specialists in palaeoproteomics, bird genetics, archaeology and more to crack the eggshell code and answer the question of what led to the demise of the thunderbird.
Links and further reading:
Find more AlphaFold stories at dpmd.ai/3OsyZVj
Read the full paper by Beatrice, Josefin, Matthew and colleagues in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2109326119
Access the AlphaFold database dpmd.ai/3DrQkY7
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All Comments (19)
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This is a game changer. Paleoproteomics of fossils could allow us to look back into the past much farther than DNA sequencing 😍.
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So Intriguing!! Amazing!!
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Demis Hassabis and his team and backers are opening up new landscapes of knowledge. Hurray for DeepMind! What a gift to humanity!
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Amazing. AlphaFold sure is a gift to the scientific community. Can’t wait to see what DeepMind develops in the future to help advance science ❤
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Always fascinated by the discoveries of Deepmind.....
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Does that mean the better the technology, the farther we can look into the past!!! ❤ I wish I worked at AlphaFold ❤️
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If normal people knew how hard I needed out on this stuff 😂🥰
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So... it took AI for them to know that a very big egg was laid by a very big animal?
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Database. Opensource?
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Leggo my Eggo, yo.
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G'day. I've never learnt anything about these birds at school here in Melbourne. To me they look like the size of emu eggs. I really find this hard to believe and as you can see I'm from Australia and I'm a 58 year old male. These days we really have to question everything we've been taught at school. Just look at the last 2 years. A virus is now called a disease and last year an experimental medical procedure was mandated. Look at what's happening this year with all the new reasons for heart attacks and other health problems happening.
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Was the bird big?
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How damaged is the dna if you look at the atomic level, are there remaining nano structures that could be pieced together to a full genome?
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So that means dinosaur birds lived with humans?
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So Alphafold helped these three humans figure out that their ancestors loved to eat giant bird eggs. Got it.
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Question: how is the status with A.G.I
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* Unfeld
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You sure have a lot of dead birds hoarded. 😀
