AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology

Re:AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in... by xral on Monday November 30, 2020 @12:43PM (#25256501)

AlQuraishi's tweet [0] about this:

> CASP14 #s just came out and they’re astounding—DeepMind looks to have solved protein structure prediction. Median GDT_TS went from 68.5 (CASP13) to 92.4!!!! Cf. their 2nd best CASP13 struct scored 92.8 (out of 100). Median RMSD is 2.1Å. I think it's over https://predictioncenter.org/casp14/zscores_final.cgi

[0]: https://twitter.com/MoAlQuraishi/status/1333383634649313280

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Re:AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in... by elwell on Monday November 30, 2020 @03:21PM (#25258462)

> https://predictioncenter.org/casp14/zscores_final.cgi

`.cgi`... we've come full circle

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Re:AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in... by matsemann on Monday November 30, 2020 @01:13PM (#25256931)

What does that Å mean? Never seen our letter been used in a scientific context.

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Re:AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in... by flobosg on Monday November 30, 2020 @01:14PM (#25256943)

Ångström, a length unit. 1 Å = 0.1 nm.

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Re:AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in... by seslattery on Monday November 30, 2020 @01:16PM (#25256970)

It's the symbol for Angstrom, a unit of length 10^-10m https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angstrom

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Re:AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in... by kolinko on Monday November 30, 2020 @02:45PM (#25258048)

0.1nm - approximately a size of an atom - used in organic chemistry often.

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Re:AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in... by adw on Monday November 30, 2020 @11:32PM (#25262318)

Standard distance measure in most atomic-scale condensed-matter fields. Certainly inorganic crystallography/materials science/condensed matter physics.

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