Noteworthy: DeepMind solves 50-year-old ‘grand challenge’ with protein folding A.I.
Vancouver, BC, November 30, 2020--Alphabet-owned DeepMind has developed a piece of artificial intelligence software that can accurately predict the structure that proteins will fold into in a matter of days, solving a 50-year-old "grand challenge" that could pave the way for better understanding of diseases and drug discovery. Predicting the shape that a protein will fold into is important because it determines their function and nearly all diseases are related to how proteins function.