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Re:The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 by resiros on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @09:12AM (#15400196)
This is the second nobel price in five years going to protein structure prediction. Pretty exciting stuff!
Re:The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 by fabian2k on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @09:21AM (#15400234)
This is not prediction, it's structure determination. Though there is a lot of computation and modelling involved, it's much more like X-ray crystallography and NMR than ab initio structure prediction. It's based on actual, measured data, not on computation alone.

It is very impressive that they managed to get the resolution of the method into a range comparable to the other conventional methods.