New York Times: Making New Drugs With a Dose of Artificial Intelligence
New York Times: Making New Drugs With a Dose of Artificial Intelligence. “You can think of it as a World Cup of biochemical research. Every two years, hundreds of scientists enter a global competition. Tackling a biological puzzle they call ‘the protein folding problem,’ they try to predict the three-dimensional shape of proteins in the human body. No one knows how to solve the problem. Even the winners only chip away at it. But a solution could streamline the way scientists create new medicines and fight disease.”