Pure mathematics

Biology

Field (mathematics)

Biochemistry

Computer science

Protein structure

Computational biology

Mathematics

Artificial intelligence

Protein structure prediction

Chemistry

Artificial neural network

Biological system

Biophysics

Machine learning

Nature Methods

AlphaFold is a neural-network-based approach to predicting protein structures with high accuracy. We describe how it works in general terms and discuss some anticipated impacts on the field of structural biology.

Protein structure predictions to atomic accuracy with AlphaFold