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AlphaFold 2

Predicts protein 3D structure from sequence at near-experimental accuracy.

AlphaFold 2 蛋白质结构预测 2021 Advanced core

IN PLAIN WORDS

The Evoformer exchanges information between MSA and pair representations; a structure module with invariant point attention outputs atom coordinates. It cracked protein folding and shared the 2024 Chemistry Nobel.

Used in: Structural biology, drug design; AlphaFold 3

TIMELINE · prerequisites → this → what builds on it

2016 Graph Neural …2017 Transformer &…2021 AlphaFold 2

01Original paper

Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

Jumper et al. · Nature · 2021

DOI ↗ ✓ Verified · Crossref API doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03819-2

02Where it sits

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AlphaFold 2

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03Learning resources

Official docs, explainers, courses and reference code. All links checked.

Reference code

google-deepmind/alphafold ↗EN

04Where the course teaches it

U94 AI for Science & Domain Applications Graph neural networks, AlphaFold, AlphaGeometry and automated research — linked with AIMap’s “AI × Disciplines” section. 10 h4 algorithms3 papers

For AI / data

Verification: verified, checked 2026-10-21.
JSON: /api/learn/algorithms.json (id: alphafold)