Google's DeepMind is using AI to help scientists understand coronavirus - Tech News Digest

Friday 6 March 2020

Google's DeepMind is using AI to help scientists understand coronavirus

Google's DeepMind is using AI to help scientists understand coronavirus

Google's DeepMind is putting its artificial intelligence systems to a new task: trying to figure out certain properties of the novel coronavirus which has killed thousands in the past couple of months. 

In a post Thursday, DeepMind (which was acquired by Google in 2014 and is now a subsidiary of Alphabet), said it has put its AlphaFold system to create "structure predictions of several under-studied proteins associated with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19."

These predictions haven't been experimentally verified, DeepMind says, but they may help scientists understand how the coronavirus functions. This, in turn, may be of use when developing a vaccine or cure.  Read more...

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