Google Noodles: AlphaFold2 joins the protein structure game

Written by Roshni, narrated & edited by April

information sources:
+Jumper, J. et al. (2021). Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold, Nature. https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...
+stats on how many proteins in protein bank (PDB) https://www.rcsb.org/stats/growth/gro...
+Steinegger et al. (2019).Protein-level assembly increases protein sequence recovery from metagenomic samples manyfold, Nature Methods. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-019-04...

media sources:
+folding simulation: Zhang Y, Weber J, Zhou R (2016). "Folding and Stabilization of Native-Sequence-Reversed Proteins". Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/srep25138
+"Citric Acid Cycle" by wehi.tv (2020)    • Citric Acid Cycle (2020) by Drew Berr...  
+DNA animations by wehi.tv for Science-Art exhibition    • DNA animation (2002-2014) by Drew Ber...  

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