Reacción a "Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Baker, Hassabis and Jumper for computational protein design and structure prediction"

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry recognizes the spectacular progress achieved in recent years in protein engineering through theoretical methods. The academy acknowledges the work of the field's pioneer, D. Baker, who has contributed to continued and systematic advances in our ability to predict protein folding, as well as the more recent work of Jumper and Hassabis, the lead authors of AlphaFold, a disruptive structure prediction algorithm based on artificial intelligence, which in just a few years has revolutionized and democratized the field of protein structural biology.

The advances awarded by the academy have enabled not only the assignment of structure to amino acid sequences, but also the design of new proteins with sequences and functions unexplored by nature, opening up unforeseen possibilities in molecular engineering.