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 calf on Monday November 30, 2020 @06:45PM (#25260538)

Is this a scientific advance or a technological one though? Academia doesn't have the capital like industry or government to implement the latter. In America it's small small groups of young students led by a professor. Not full grown PhDs with Google levels of staff and money.

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Re:AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in... by dwheeler on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @08:47AM (#25265046)

I would claim that this is a technological advance that is likely to lead to many scientific advances.

Perhaps a good analogy are the inventions of the microscope and telescope. They were advances in technology, which then led to advances in science. I don't know if this will have the same effect as the microscope and telescope, but it would be great if it did. It certainly seems extremely promising.

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Re:AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in... by adwn on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @07:36AM (#25264615)

> Is this a scientific advance or a technological one though?

Where's the difference?

(this is a genuine question, I'm not trying to trick you)

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