Google DeepMind Open Sources AlphaFold 3 with GPU Acceleration

Nov 15, 2024, 05:17 PM

Google DeepMind has made the code and weights for AlphaFold 3 available to researchers, marking a significant advancement in protein structure prediction. This move allows academic researchers worldwide to access the tool, which has previously won a Nobel Prize for its contributions to modeling protein structures. The release of AlphaFold 3's code is expected to accelerate drug discovery by enabling scientists to predict molecular interactions and model protein structures more effectively. The open-source nature of AlphaFold 3, combined with GPU acceleration, promises to revolutionize computational biology by providing unprecedented speed and cost efficiency in homology searches.