The folks who self-identify as DeepMind are promising to wreck protein’s remaining lives by doxing whatever proteins have yet to be doxed. That’s right, folks, DeepMind is promising to release all the structures of EVERY protein known to science, without protein’s consent, no doubt.
The move could hamper the ability of corporations to win the race to patent all the designs of nature so as to assure that only the wealthy few have access to the building blocks that nature ‘created’ without any contributions from these same patent hoarders. That might not be why DeepMind is doing this, but it works for me.
DeepMind says it will release the structure of every protein known to science
From www.technologyreview.com
2021-07-22 11:00:36
Will Douglas Heaven
Excerpt:
In the last few months Baker’s team has been working with biologists who were previously stuck trying to figure out the shape of proteins they were studying. “There’s a lot of pretty cool biological research that’s been really sped up,” he says. A public database containing hundreds of thousands of ready-made protein shapes should be an even bigger accelerator.
“It looks astonishingly impressive,” says Tom Ellis, a synthetic biologist at Imperial College London studying the…
