# \#molecular-biology
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## [Algorithmic Information of the Human Genome](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/algorithmic-information-of-the-human-genome/2392)
**Author:** [@jabowery](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/jabowery)\
**Replies:** 13\
**Last updated:** [1 April 2025 13:21 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/algorithmic-information-of-the-human-genome/2392 "2025-04-01T13:21:02Z")
What if there were a prize, like the Hutter Prize for Lossless Compression of Human Knowledge, replacing the Wikpedia corpus with a database of human genomes? The idea would be to approximate the Algorithmic Information…
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## [AlphaFold and the Revolution in Molecular Biology](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/alphafold-and-the-revolution-in-molecular-biology/1241)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [22 April 2022 12:19 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/alphafold-and-the-revolution-in-molecular-biology/1241 "2022-04-22T12:19:25Z")
Nature has published a survey article, “What’s next for AlphaFold and the AI protein-folding revolution”, which discusses the impact upon molecular biology of the release of AlphaFold, an artificial intelligence program …
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## [How Does AlphaFold2 Predict Protein Folding?](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/how-does-alphafold2-predict-protein-folding/450)
**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")
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…