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DeepMind’s system for predicting the 3D structure of proteins is among five recipients of science’s most lucrative awards.
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.
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Nature 609, 889 (2022)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-02999-9
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