A watershed moment for protein structure prediction

Re:A watershed moment for protein structure prediction by stopads on Monday January 20, 2020 @08:55AM (#22098785)

This is 90% of science these days, just keep tweaking numbers in the model until it fits with what you want to see. The why and the how is not really something we have the capability or tooling to tackle.

I got bored with physics really quickly when I realized this is what everyone does.

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Re:A watershed moment for protein structure prediction by coldtea on Monday January 20, 2020 @09:51AM (#22099154)

>This is 90% of science these days, just keep tweaking numbers in the model until it fits with what you want to see.

If the result is immediately applicable to real world problems, like in this case, that's a perfectly valid approach.

In this case we just need the model to produce answers we can use -- how we made the model, what's in it, etc, we don't need to care.

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Re:A watershed moment for protein structure prediction by not_qe on Monday January 20, 2020 @01:52PM (#22101173)

Did you read the end of the paper.

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