Apple researchers develop SimpleFold, a lightweight AI for protein folding prediction
Google DeepMind’s work with AlphaFold has been nothing short of a miracle, but it is computationally expensive. With that in mind, Apple researchers set off to develop an alternative method to use AI to predict the 3D structure of proteins, and it shows promise. Here are the details. If you’re not familiar with AlphaFold, this is Google DeepMind’s groundbreaking AI model that can predict the 3D structure of a protein from its amino acid sequence. This has been especially valuable in helping dev