AlphaFold Developers Win US$3-million for Solving Protein Folding
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#6401F)
The researchers behind the AlphaFold artificial-intelligence (AI) system have won one of this year's US$3-million Breakthrough prizes - the most lucrative awards in science. Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, both at DeepMind in London, were recognized for creating the tool that has predicted the 3D structures of almost every known protein on the planet. Few ...