DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis at an award ceremony in Spain in 2022 Samuel de Roman/Getty Images In the months after CASP, DeepMind moved fast. The team predicted all 20,000 proteins in the human ...

Image: DeepMind. At the end of the competition, AlphaFold had the most accurate predictions of any CASP participant in its 25-year history by a wide margin.

DeepMind, an AI lab based in London, took part in the CASP challenge where research teams from around the world were given sequences of amino acids for a set of roughly 100 proteins.

Alphabet-owned DeepMind may be best known for building the AI that beat a world-class Go player, but the company announced another, perhaps more vital breakthrough this morning. As part of its ...

DeepMind has already notched up a streak of wins, showcasing AIs that have learned to play a variety of complex games with superhuman skill, from Go and StarCraft to Atari’s entire back catalogue.

DeepMind tested its performance at the Critical Assessment of protein Structure Prediction (CASP) competition, a biannual experiment in predicting the 3D structure of proteins.

Image Credit: Deepmind. ... (CASP) protein-folding competition in Cancun, where it successfuly predicted the structure of 25 out of 43 proteins.

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London-based DeepMind has been working on AlphaFold for four years. It also beat the other teams in the last CASP challenge in 2018, but did so by a much larger margin in the most recent year.

AlphaFold solved a structural biology riddle: predicting protein structure. And yet, CASP, a global competition born to solve that problem, lives on.