Last year I congratulated Demis Hassabis, a former chess prodigy who went on to astound the scientific community with his algorithms. His company, @DeepMind who research and build safe #AI systems, has now made a database of human protein structures freely available online.
It is said that scientists have only decoded the structure of a fraction of human proteins in "onerous" lab work, which begun in the 1950s. However, DeepMind's AI program, AlphaFold, has claimed to have predicted the structure of nearly all 20,000 proteins expressed by humans.
“I almost fell off my chair in just excitement and amazement that this longstanding problem of how proteins fold had been solved", Prof Ewan Birney, the director of the EMBL-EBI, working in partnership with the company. theguardian.com/technology/202…
#DeepMind hopes the free database will help researchers analyse how life works at an atomic scale by "unpacking the apparatus that drives some diseases" and also to "make strides in the field of personalised medicines". Fascinating work!
Hassabis has told The Times about his plans to go even further. He said his company are making "good progress" on problems related to nuclear fusion, potentially a source of essentially limitless energy, as well as quantum chemistry and weather prediction.
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