{"id":729774,"date":"2022-07-14T15:26:03","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T19:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=729774"},"modified":"2022-07-14T15:26:03","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T19:26:03","slug":"physicists-use-ai-to-find-the-most-complex-protein-knots-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=729774","title":{"rendered":"Physicists use AI to find the most complex protein knots so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The question of how the chemical composition of a protein\u2014the amino acid sequence\u2014determines its 3D structure has been one of the biggest challenges in biophysics for more than half a century. This knowledge about the so-called &#8220;folding&#8221; of proteins is in great demand, as it contributes significantly to the understanding of various diseases and their treatment, among other things. For these reasons, Google&#8217;s DeepMind research team has developed AlphaFold, an artificial intelligence that predicts 3D structures.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-07-physicists-ai-complex-protein.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Physicists use AI to find the most complex protein knots so far<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The question of how the chemical composition of a protein\u2014the amino acid sequence\u2014determines its 3D structure has been one of the biggest challenges in biophysics for more than half a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=729774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=729774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=729774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=729774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}