Congrats to my colleagues @demishassabis & John Jumper for winning the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their awesome AlphaFold work. AlphaFold has had a dramatic impact across many fields including medicine, drug development & more.
And yes, this is my second Nobel-congratulating post in two days for current or former Google colleagues! 🎉
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction.”
MGnify Proteins – our vast database of protein sequences derived from metagenomic sequencing – is now accessible via the web (https://t.co/ivZX5tEiED) and via @googlecloud BigQuery Public Datasets.
For the full news, see https://t.co/R3UwtHXUR3
Google have announced a further $1 billion investment to open a new data centre in Hertfordshire.
It's a huge vote of confidence in the UK as the largest tech economy in Europe, bringing with it good jobs and the infrastructure needed to support British businesses 🇬🇧
In a first of its kind, @Google has launched a ‘New Fundamentals’ training course to equip people with the essential skills to use AI 🌐
Those skills will empower employees, entrepreneurs & business owners to drive innovation and growth in the industries of the future.
Hatem Nawar! Hatem, along with Google Life Sciences, has supported our Bioinformatics team in transitioning from using traditional computing infrastructure to cloud based computing for their research projects, and even donated his own time towards helping Anthony Nolan.
Don’t miss these two demos at the Sustainability #GoogleCloudSummit:
1️⃣ Explore how to measure, report, & reduce the carbon footprint of your digital apps → https://t.co/cOJ8Ldfl6j
2️⃣ Learn how to use geospatial data to visualize environmental risk → https://t.co/twz5ikQuni
As AI becomes increasingly powerful we will be able to use it to tackle ever more complex problems. #AlphaFold is a sign of things to come, I believe we are at the dawn of a new renaissance in science. Really enjoyed the conversation w/@strwbilly for this great @techreview report
The #AlphaFold database has doubled in size today & now includes more than 800,000 structures. This is just one more step towards releasing 100+ million protein structures over the next year, that will cover almost every sequenced protein known to science!!
Today, Google Cloud and @emblebi have signed a new, comprehensive, five-year partnership to accelerate the pace of service delivery to its global user community. Find out more → https://t.co/bDp7d1njmJ
I am humbled and honoured to have been awarded a knighthood by Her Majesty The Queen for services to UK science. Thank you to my family for their support as well as all the wonderful people I’ve had the privilege of working with throughout my career. https://t.co/GWhjho1s7k
We also support researchers with tools like RAD Lab — a sandbox environment to help facilitate R&D while maintaining compliance and still giving researchers access to the latest technology. The faster we can experiment, the faster we can make progress. https://t.co/JPuDxQ4P16
We are happy to announce the launch of RAD Lab (Rapid Application Development) as an open source project allowing users to quickly deploy data science environments using IaC on their Google Cloud infrastructure.Make sure to try it out. https://t.co/thrONjffG4
Cheers to 23 years! Thank you to all of you who inspire and motivate us to continue building a more helpful Google for everyone. Excited for what's to come...but first, time for some birthday cake! 🎂🎉