AlphaFold Unofficial

AlphaFold Unofficial

@alphafold.bsky.social

Unofficial account exploring the intersection of biology, molecules, science, AI and protein folding with AlphaFold.

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🧬 Figure Friday: Celebrating discoveries from the Protein Science community Can AI predict how proteins assemble? Ben Corry and colleagues show that AlphaFold can accurately predict the oligomeric states of many proteins, while also highlighting cases where predictions remain challenging.

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John Jumper, the Nobel laureate behind AlphaFold, is leaving Google DeepMind after ~9 years for Anthropic. AlphaFold predicted 200M+ protein structures. Lands amid the talent war, days after Shazeer left Google for OpenAI. (Disclosure: we run on Anthropic's Claude.)

zubnet.aiJohn Jumper, the Nobel laureate behind AlphaFold, is leaving Google DeepMind for AnthropicJohn Jumper, who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold, is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join Anthropic. AlphaFold predicted 200M+ protein structures. The move lands amid the AI talent war, days after Shazeer left Google for OpenAI.

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Will AlphaFold et al. figure out how the genome works? Doubtful, says @philipcball.bsky.social. I think he's absolutely right. The genome is a complex adaptive system, w/ many layers of regulation and buffering—a "sensitive organ of the cell," said Barbara McClintock—in 1983!

quantamagazine.orgWhy the Human Genome’s Tangled Physicality May Confound AI | Quanta MagazineOur genetic heritage is not a blueprint or an algorithm, as many biologists have imagined, but something else entirely.

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A tough week for Google’s AI efforts. Along with losing the co-lead of Gemini to OpenAI, they are also losing the Nobel Prize winning lead of the AlphaFold project at DeepMind to Anthropic. He won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2024 for using AI to predict 3D protein structures.

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Replying to @catacalypto.bsky.social

I’m not anti-tech or investment in tech. I’m excited about solar and AlphaFold and ocean monitoring. I love science; and I know the less flashy sides of science are suffering too. I just don’t want to see the humanities, our collective history, gutted to the point where it’s too late.

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🔬🚀 It's out! Run 100s of imaging experiments before touching a microscope. #VLab4Mic reproduces them in silico from PDB/AlphaFold to help you image right first time. From rockstars Damián Martínez & Bruno Saraiva, inaugural preprint of @mariodelr.bsky.social new lab www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Mario Del Rosario@mariodelr.bsky.social

Congratulations to Damián Martinez, Bruno Saraiva, @taylashakespeare.bsky.social, @wmarkbates.bsky.social, Dylan Owen, @christlet.bsky.social and @henriqueslab.bsky.social We hope VLab4Mic helps researchers design better experiments and ask better biological questions 💻 vlab4mic.henriqueslab.org

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Replying to @erisianrite.com

It always gets me the lengths people go to try to argue that LLMs and image generation models "aren't really AI", and then they point to "AI" things, and they're based on the same underlying tech. AlphaFold is built on latents, diffusion, *and* Transformers.

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Replying to @thegoldfishmind.bsky.social

Before AlphaFold: Biology was like trying to understand machines without seeing their shapes. After AlphaFold: Scientists suddenly received a massive 3D blueprint library for life’s molecular machinery. This is how we can use AI for good. But w/o regulation, we risk harm to society.

deepmind.googleAlphaFold: Five Years of ImpactExplore five years of AlphaFold’s impact on biology. Learn how this Nobel Prize-winning AI is accelerating scientific discovery globally

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Replying to @susiegriggo.bsky.social

Enter PHLEGM! 💻🧬 We developed the Phage Homomer Level Estimate and Generation Method to infer oligomeric state using AlphaFold-Multimer and interface quality assessment. We applied it to >22,000 sequences, revealing massive structural diversity. (2/n)

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Just published: The Hidden Handshake: How AlphaFold Solved a Decade-Long Mystery in Plant Immunity Over ten years in the making - generations of students and postdocs... Here's the structural basis of NLR activate-and-release, and, yes, we can engineer it. medium.com/p/the-hidden...

medium.comThe Hidden Handshake: How AlphaFold Solved a Decade-Long Mystery in Plant ImmunityOver ten years in the making — generations of students and postdocs, countless false starts, and others were chasing this too. Here’s the…

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Doudna: “we don’t have the data…biological data are limiting…we need AI approaches that acknowledge this” Jennifer gives the example of Alphafold dependence on PDB at #cshlsymposium2026 noting that other areas like protein-NA complexes will need more data for AI to help.

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Today, the AlphaFold2 paper reached the milestone of 50k citations according to Google Scholar! And AlphaFold3 will likely reach 15k citations tomorrow. Congratulations to the entire AlphaFold team, as well as to all the scientists who helped democratize protein structure prediction 🥳

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When AlphaFold was released, there was a lot of talk that it marked the end of structural biology. That is far from the case. We will, I’m sure, hear similar comments with the emergence of AI co-scientist agents. AI is just a tool but It will never replace a scientist’s intuition & experience.

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Check out our latest work! AlphaFold 3 revealed a transient immune receptor complex that eluded biochemical studies for almost a decade 🤯 We describe a conserved structural logic underlying sensor–helper communication in an NLR immune receptor network 🧵👇

bioRxiv Plant Bio@biorxiv-plants.bsky.social

A conserved structural logic underlies sensor-helper NLR communication in the NRC immune receptor network https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.18.725810v1

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1/6 🧪 Big news for structural biology and AI: PDBe is now AI-native. We’ve built MCP Servers that connect the Protein Data Bank in Europe and the Alphafold Protein Structure Database directly to Claude and other MCP-compatible AI systems. Here’s what that unlocks 👇

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