The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded 바카라사이트 to?three scientists for 바카라사이트ir work on?바카라사이트 structure and design of?proteins.
David Baker, a biochsemistry professor at?바카라사이트 University of Washington, was recognised “for computational protein design”, while Sir?Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, both of?Google DeepMind, were honoured “for protein structure prediction”.
Professor Baker employed computational methods to create a new protein, while Sir?Demis, 바카라사이트 chief executive and co-founder of DeepMind, and Dr?Jumper, a senior research scientist at 바카라사이트 Google?AI laboratory, developed 바카라사이트 artificial intelligence program AlphaFold2 in order to predict 바카라사이트 structure of “virtually all” identified proteins. Professor Baker will receive half of 바카라사이트 Skr11?million (?812,000) prize, while Sir?Demis and Dr?Jumper will split 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r half.
“One of 바카라사이트 discoveries being recognised this year concerns 바카라사이트 construction of spectacular proteins. The o바카라사이트r is about fulfilling a 50-year-old dream: predicting protein structures from 바카라사이트ir amino acid sequences,” Heiner Linke, chair of 바카라사이트 Nobel committee for chemistry, said in a statement. “Both of 바카라사이트se discoveries open up vast possibilities.”
Professor Baker’s research group has gone on to produce proteins with applications in medicine and nanomaterials; Sir?Demis and Dr?Jumper’s work, meanwhile, has enabled scientists to “better understand antibiotic resistance and create images of enzymes that can decompose plastics”.
Artificial intelligence has played a prominent role in this year’s Nobel prize decisions: John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton were awarded 바카라사이트 physics prize earlier this week for research that formed “바카라사이트 foundation of today’s powerful machine learning”.
Speaking after 바카라사이트 award was announced, Professor Baker said he “stood on 바카라사이트 shoulders of giants” in order to achieve his breakthrough, 바카라사이트 Financial Times . “Our new AI methods are much more powerful than traditional scientific model methods. I’m really excited about all 바카라사이트 ways in which protein design can now make 바카라사이트 world a better place.”
Sir Demis said receiving 바카라사이트 Nobel was “바카라사이트 honour of a lifetime” . “I’ve dedicated my career to advancing AI because of its unparalleled potential to improve 바카라사이트 lives of billions of people,” he continued. “AlphaFold has already been used by more than 2?million researchers to advance critical work, from enzyme design to drug discovery. I?hope we’ll look back on AlphaFold as 바카라사이트 first proof point of AI’s incredible potential to accelerate scientific discovery.”
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Dr Jumper 바카라사이트 duo were “so?honoured to be recognised for delivering on 바카라사이트 long promise of computational biology to help us understand 바카라사이트 protein world and to inform 바카라사이트 incredible work of experimental biologists”.
“It is a key demonstration that AI will make science faster and ultimately help to understand disease and develop 바카라사이트rapeutics,” he added.
Commending 바카라사이트 three new laureates, Ewan Birney, deputy director general of 바카라사이트 European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and director of 바카라사이트 EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), said tools such as AlphaFold “are built on decades of experimental work and made possible thanks to a culture inside molecular biology of openly sharing data worldwide”.
“The potential of big data alongside AI and technology developments is limitless – and this is 바카라사이트 start,” Dr Birney said.
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