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title: "On Folding Proteins"
date: 2020-12-23
description: "On Folding Proteins"
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Merry Christmas, everyone. 

[What is the “protein folding problem”? A brief explanation](https://rootsofprogress.org/alphafold-protein-folding-explainer)

> Today Google DeepMind announced that their deep learning system AlphaFold has achieved unprecedented levels of accuracy on the “protein folding problem”, a grand challenge problem in computational biochemistry.
> 
> What is this problem, and why is it hard?

A good primer on protein folding, the challenges involved, and, of course, recent developments.