AlphaFold protein structure prediction
AlphaFold, predicción de la estructura de proteínas
- Date
- 2020 · confidence high
- Place
- Google DeepMind, London, United Kingdom
- Credited to
- DeepMind (John Jumper, Demis Hassabis; Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024); David Baker (protein design, Nobel 2024)
- People
- 👤 David Baker1962–
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
AI system that predicts a protein's three-dimensional structure from its sequence with experimental accuracy, solving a fifty-year-old problem. It published the structures of 200 million proteins.
What it led to
- The acceleration of drug and enzyme design
- The design of novel proteins (RFdiffusion) and generative biology
- The first Nobel Prize for an AI system
Built on
Made possible
- AI-assisted protein design
- AlphaFold 3 (drug interactions)
- Isomorphic Labs