It used to literally take months or even years to figure out how a single protein folds. AlphaFold can do it in minutes. It's a big deal because now researchers can test 1000s of proteins (instead of one or two) to solve many or most problems of disease and biology.
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It used to literally take months or even years to figure out how a single protein folds. AlphaFold can do it in minutes. It's a big deal because now researchers can test 1000s of proteins (instead of one or two) to solve many or most problems of disease and biology.