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## [How Does AlphaFold2 Predict Protein Folding?](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/how-does-alphafold2-predict-protein-folding/450)

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**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\
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**Last updated:** [26 November 2021 13:52 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/how-does-alphafold2-predict-protein-folding/450 "2021-11-26T13:52:30Z")

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Here is the AlphaFold2 paper from Nature, “Highly accurate protein structure prediction for the human proteome”, published 2021-07-22 (full text \[PDF\]). AlphaFold2 is open source software and may be downlo…