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Drug firms’ secret data supercharge AI protein models
NatureMonday, September 14, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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Nature, Published online: 14 September 2026; doi:10. 1038/d41586-026-02882-x An AI system trained on more than 20,000 protein structures from pharmaceutical companies outperforms AlphaFold-like models that use only public data.
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- Scientific signal separates durable discovery from noise — and often foreshadows policy and product. Nature, Published online: 14 September 2026; doi:10. 1038/d41586-026-02882-x An AI system trained on more than 20,000 protein structures from pharmaceutical companies outperforms AlphaFold-like models that use only public data.
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Nature, Published online: 14 September 2026; doi:10. 1038/d41586-026-02882-x An AI system trained on more than 20,000 protein structures from pharmaceutical companies outperforms AlphaFold-like models that use only public data.
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Scientific signal separates durable discovery from noise — and often foreshadows policy and product.
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