how AlphaFold *actually* works

Опубликовано: 03 Июль 2026
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AlphaFold paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...

The original paper about transformers (the technology behind GPT), Attention Is All You Need: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762

Helpful videos and blogposts about attention and AlphaFold

3blue1brown's video on transformers:    • Attention in transformers, step-by-step | ...  

Nazim Bouatta's talk on AlphaFold:    • Nazim Bouatta | Machine learning for prote...  

Simon Kohl's talk on AlphaFold, (he is one of the coauthor's of the algorithm):    • Highly Accurate Protein Structure Predicti...  

A very thorough blogpost about the algorithm from UV-Bio: https://www.uvio.bio/alphafold-archit...

The Openfold github + paper: https://github.com/aqlaboratory/openfold + https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.11...