A quick video on the basics of DeepMind's AlphaFold 2 breakthrough. Please support this channel by checking out our sponsors: - Vincero: https://vincerowatches.com/lex to get up to 25% off + free shipping - Four Sigmatic: https://foursigmatic.com/lex and use code LexPod to get up to 60% off References and good blogs, articles, videos: [1] AlphaFold 2: https://deepmind.com/blog/article/alphafold-a-solution-to-a-50-year-old-grand-challenge-in-biology [2] AlphaFold 1: https://deepmind.com/blog/article/AlphaFold-Using-AI-for-scientific-discovery [3] AlphaFold 1 paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1923-7 [4] CASP14 Results: https://www.predictioncenter.org/casp14/zscores_final.cgi [20] AlphaFold 2 video from Yannic Kilcher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9PL__gVxLI [21] Science: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/game-has-changed-ai-triumphs-solving-protein-structures [22] Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03348-4 [23] Fortune: https://fortune.com/2020/11/30/deepmind-protein-folding-breakthrough/ OUTLINE: 0:00 - What happened? 1:03 - How big is this accomplishment? 4:39 - Proteins and amino acids 5:17 - Protein folding 8:26 - How AlphaFold 1 works 9:45 - How AlphaFold 2 works 12:09 - Why is this breakthrough important? 13:19 - Long-term future impact