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AI protein-prediction tool AlphaFold3 is now open source
The code underlying the Nobel-prize-winning tool for modelling protein structures can now be downloaded by academics.
“We’re very excited to see what people do with this,” says John Jumper, who leads the AlphaFold team at DeepMind and last month, along with CEO Demis Hassabis, won a share of the 2024 Chemistry Nobel Prize for their work on the AI tool. Anthony Gitter, a computational biologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has no problem with for-profit companies joining his field — so long as they play by the same rules as other scientists when they share their work in journals and preprint servers. If DeepMind makes claims about AlphaFold3 in a scientific publication, “I and others expect them to also share information about how predictions were made and put the AI models and code out in a way that we can inspect,” Gitter adds.
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