What is AlphaFold?

AlphaFold is an AI system for protein structure prediction developed by DeepMind.

• Apr 2026 - Demis Hassabis said almost every drug discovered from now on will have used AlphaFold at some point in the drug discovery process.
• Jun 2026 - An unknown speaker noted that papers in Cell last year showed AlphaFold-produced proteins used for traditional docking found no value, as those pockets were not high resolution enough.