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It seems like one potential endpoint of this type of research, beyond the medical applications, would be to explore the effects of synthetic amino acids that allow the incorporation of other materials into the protein output.

This could open the door to materials synthesis and other types of fabrication.

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AlphaFold is heavily based on sequence alignments, which means incorporating synthetic amino acids would be extremely difficult as there is no input data for them. There would need to be a different leap forward for this use case.

Whatever you're imaging, it's likely it could be accomplished with the standard compliment of amino acids.

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