AI mapped 200 million protein structures and gave them away for free
karmicoder · x · 2026-10-18
A discussion notes that every protein works because of its shape, and solving one structure used to take a lab months or years. AI has now mapped 200 million proteins — essentially every one known to science — and released them for free, letting drug discovery skip its slowest step.
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