Three scientists have shared the winning Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on the structure of proteins. David baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper used artificial intelligence to crack the code of almost all known proteins which are known as the chemical tools of life. Part of the prestigious award is a share in more than 1.5 million dollars.
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00:00Proteins are what everything in life depends on, and it's really important to understand
00:07how the structure of a protein, the 3D structure of a protein, looks like in the body to understand
00:12what it does.
00:14And so what AlphaFold does, our program, is it can predict that 3D structure just from
00:18the amino acid sequence, basically the genetic sequence of that protein.
00:22I think maybe one way to look at it is, you know, this is something done all the time
00:28by research biologists, and it takes them a year or more to get a single answer.
00:33And we have a program that gives an answer that's, you know, reasonably close in quality
00:37and does it in five or ten minutes.