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Ri on AI: Understanding AlphaFold with Dame Janet Thornton

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We’re exploring how AI is impacting different areas of scientific research, and in this episode we discuss AlphaFold, the machine learning programme from DeepMind that can determine a protein structure from its amino acids alone. Lisa Derry is joined by Dame Janet Thornton, an oracle of bioinformatics and former Director of the European Bioinformatics Institute, to discuss how AlphaFold has revolutionised its field, and what it could do in the future.

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  • Search the AlphaFold database: https://alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/
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    • Producer: Lia Hale

    Production assistants: Sarah Dick and James Kavanagh

    Interviewer: Lisa Derry

    Music: Joseph Sandy

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