A Google DeepMind AI program that predicts protein structure. In 2018, AlphaFold 1 ranked first in Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction (CASP), a worldwide experiment every two years. In 2020, AlphaFold 2 was described as transformational and AlphaFold 3 showed at least a 50% improvement over other methods in 2024.
Also in 2024, along with David Baker from the University of Washington, DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis and John Jumper were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work in protein structure prediction. DeepMind's contribution to medical science has been extraordinary, condensing what would otherwise take months into minutes. See
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