AlphaFold
DeepMind system that predicts protein 3D structure from amino acid sequence, transforming structural biology.
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DeepMind's AlphaFold 2 Achieves Highest-Accuracy Results at CASP14 Protein Structure Prediction Competition
In November–December 2020, DeepMind's AlphaFold 2 system achieved a median Global Distance Test score of approximately 92.4 across all CASP14 targets, far surpassing the next-best group, in a result that computational biologists described as largely solving the 50-year-old protein-folding problem for single-chain proteins.
DeepMind Technologies Founded
Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg, and Mustafa Suleyman co-founded DeepMind Technologies in London in 2010, establishing an independent research laboratory with the stated goal of developing general-purpose artificial intelligence grounded in neuroscience.