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AlphaFold 2: A Leap Into the Future
With the introduction of AlphaFold 2, everything changed. By incorporating a cutting-edge architecture known as the EVO Former, AlphaFold 2 deftly combined evolutionary data with geometric constraints to produce predictions with unprecedented accuracy. This model utilized an innovative attention mechanism akin to those found in contemporary language models, enabling it to parse protein sequences in a way that recognized essential biological relationships.