Michael Levitt

AI for Science: Frontiers in Computational Biology
Prof. Levitt is the laureate of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, a member of the US National Academy of Science, a fellow of the Royal Society, a tenured professor in the Department of Structural Biology of Stanford University, and the Honorary Dean of the Multiscale Research Institute for Complex Systems of Fudan University. He is a pioneer in molecular dynamics simulation methods for proteins and DNA and has been working on the critical assessment of techniques for protein structure prediction, analyzing protein folding and packing, and developing scoring systems for largescale sequence-structure comparisons.

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AI for Science: Frontiers in Computational Biology

Summary:

Prof. Levitt will describe how computational biology has grown from being a "fringe" discipline in the modern life sciences to a leading discipline, and how it reveals profound methodological implications and the law of scientific development. He will also discuss the deep interdependency between "useless" basic science and "useful" applied science.