Google-owned DeepMind AI solves 50-year-old ‘protein folding problem’

London: Researchers at Google-owned Artificial Intelligence company DeepMind have solved a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology known as the “protein folding problem,” revealing what shapes proteins fold into.

The latest version of DeepMind AI system, AlphaFold, has been recognised as a solution to this grand challenge by the organisers of the biennial protein-structure prediction challenge called Critical Assessment of protein Structure Prediction (CASP).