This year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry recognizes 3 researchers for their use of machine learning to tackle one of biology’s biggest challenges: predicting the 3D shape of proteins and designing them from scratch.

A fellow chemist breaks it down for us non-chemists:
https://theconversation.com/machine-learning-cracked-the-protein-folding-problem-and-won-the-2024-nobel-prize-in-chemistry-240937

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Machine learning cracked the protein-folding problem and won the 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry

The prize honors innovation at Google DeepMind and in academia. Three researchers share the award for using machine learning to predict proteins’ 3D shapes and design the molecules from scratch.

^{The Conversation}