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AI closes in on biology's last structural puzzles

As of May 2026: Hosts the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database

Determining the three-dimensional shape of a protein used to take a graduate student an entire career. Google DeepMind released AlphaFold 4 in March 2026, extending progress from the original AlphaFold's 2018 win, with the system predicting multi-protein structures in minutes instead of hours or days.

Updated May 30