To Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, from DeepMind, and to David Baker, leader of the Institute for Protein Design
(Disclaimer to the Editor: all original ideas, and most text here was written by myself, but I used a big language model to assist me cleanup this piece efficiently).
In summary: since the research and development behind this Nobel Prize unlocked not only latest biology but in addition latest computer science, all directly resulting in advances for mankind along various fronts.
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, awarded for groundbreaking advances in protein structure prediction and design using AI, reflects the transformative moment we (scientists on the interface between chemistry and biology) are going through. And it’s much more notable after one other Nobel Prize being awarded, only a day before, to those that developed the very basis of AI.
At its core, the power to reliably predict protein structures with AI is reshaping each basic and applied biological research. Besides, the work by DeepMind and by Prof. Baker’s Institute for Protein Design established pillars for a lot of others, an enormous community indeed, to construct upon. You bought a glimpse into it in my summary above, but let’s dive into…
