Category: AI Scientific and Lab-Specific Tools
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In December 2020, Google’s DeepMind shocked the scientific world by solving a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology: the protein folding problem. AlphaFold, their groundbreaking AI system for protein structure prediction, has since transformed molecular biology, drug discovery, and biomedical research. This comprehensive review explores how AlphaFold works, its applications in academic research, and why it…
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In data-intensive scientific fields—from materials science and bioinformatics to drug discovery and physics—the sheer volume and complexity of experimental data have become the primary bottleneck. Traditional manual analysis and trial-and-error experimentation are too slow to keep pace with modern data generation. The introduction of AI for Scientific Research and machine learning (ML) tools into the…