Scientists comment on the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, awarded for computational protein design and protein structure prediction. 

Dr Meilan Huang, Senior Lecturer at the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Queen’s University Belfast, said:

“It’s really exciting news David Baker’s Rosetta and Google Deepmind’s Alphafold has brought a new era for protein structure predictions which many areas would benefit from. It sets a robust cornerstone for addressing further challenges such as rational design or de novo discovery of protein biocatalysts with desired functions for industrially important chemical transformations, using renewable resources from nature.”

Declared interests: None declared