Google wins Nobel Prize in chemistry with AlphaFold for protein structure prediction and design

This is the second Nobel Prize for machine learning & AI this year! Amazing!

"The 2024 Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for their work on computational tools to design proteins and predict their structures. This year it’s a prize of two halves. Baker, at the University of Washington, US, was recognised for his work on computationally designed proteins. Meanwhile, Hassabis and Jumper from Google’s DeepMind team were recognised for developing the machine-learning based programs AlphaFold and AlphaFold2, which predict the 3D structure of proteins based on their amino acid sequences. ..."

🧪 Re:action: Chemistry Nobel prize awarded to protein design and protein structure prediction

Fig. 1: AlphaFold produces highly accurate structures. (Source)