AlphaFold
An AI system developed by Google DeepMind that predicts protein structures.
AlphaFold is an AI system developed by Google DeepMind that predicts the three-dimensional structure of proteins from their amino acid sequences. It is widely used in biology and drug discovery research, and Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, who led its development, shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the work.
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AlphaFold succeeded because 20 to 30 years of protein structure data already existed.