Introduced five years ago, "AlphaFold 2" has deeply influenced the field of life sciences.

In 2020, Google's subsidiary company "DeepMind" launched the artificial intelligence model "AlphaFold 2". Today, it can predict almost all known protein structures, shortening the time required to determine protein structures from several years to a few minutes, demonstrating the huge potential of AI in driving scientific development. An article on the website of the British journal "Nature" recently pointed out that in the five years since its launch, "AlphaFold 2" has not only changed the way structural biology is studied, but also promoted advances in computational biology. However, it will still take time to translate its biological insights into practical applications such as drug development.