In 2020, the world watched anxiously as scientists scrambled to develop defences against COVID-19. Faced with a new, deadly infectious disease, immunologists worked day and night to develop vaccines ...
An illustration of an algorithm predicting a protein structure, with digitized blocks on the left becoming ribbons on the right. An illustration of the RoseTTAFold software predicting a protein ...
This review provides an overview of traditional and modern methods for protein structure prediction and their characteristics and introduces the groundbreaking network features of the AlphaFold family ...
Google DeepMind has announced a new AI model called ' AlphaProteo ' for designing 'proteins that bind effectively to target proteins.' AlphaProteo generates novel proteins for biology and health ...
On Wednesday, the Nobel Committee announced that it had awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry to researchers who pioneered major breakthroughs in computational chemistry. These include two researchers ...
In 2020, news headlines repeated John Moult’s words at the end of a stunning competition: Artificial intelligence had “solved” a long-standing grand challenge in biology, protein structure prediction.
In the wee hours of an October morning, David Baker, a protein biologist at the University of Washington (UW), received the most-awaited phone call in a scientist’s career. Halfway around the world, ...