Chapter 1
The origami of life
Chapter 2
Digging up the past
Chapter 3
Materials and the cosmos
Chapter 4
The language of math and logic
Ch 1 · The origami of life
007skaty The AI breakthrough instantly mapped over 200 million proteins known to science, solving a puzzle that stumped biologists since 1972.
Quiz
In which year did DeepMind's AlphaFold 2 achieve its breakthrough in predicting 3D protein structures?
Quiz
What molecular structures did the AI system AlphaFold map to solve a 50-year-old biology mystery?
007skaty Computers screen millions of chemical compounds to speed up the hunt for new medicines.
Quiz
Researchers at which prestigious American university used AI to discover the antibiotic Halicin in 2020?
Quiz
What is the name of the AI-discovered antibiotic molecule named after a fictional AI from '2001: A Space Odyssey'?
Fun Fact
AI protein mapping: AlphaFold has predicted the structure of nearly every cataloged protein on Earth, a feat that would have taken human scientists millions of years [1].
Quiz
What is the name of the generative AI tool developed in 2023 to design custom synthetic proteins from scratch?
Quiz
Which university's researchers pioneered the use of generative AI to design completely new synthetic proteins in 2023?
Glossary
protein folding (noun)
The physical process by which a protein chain folds into its characteristic spatial shape. In 2024, researchers won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for predicting these complex molecular structures.
The physical process by which a protein chain folds into its characteristic spatial shape. In 2024, researchers won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for predicting these complex molecular structures.
007skaty Malaria Mutation Tracking
Map the change, map the change / AI reads the genome to stop the strain
Quiz
Which disease's drug resistance mutations are being tracked using machine learning on genomic data in East Africa?