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Re:No, DeepMind has not solved protein folding by roywiggins on Friday December 04, 2020 @02:31PM (#25306604)
Painstaking experimental ascertainment of protein structure doesn't really tell anyone "why" it ended up that way either, but it's still been worth doing and advances science a great deal.

https://www.alpco.com/dorothy-hodgkins-discovery-insulins-3d...

Re:No, DeepMind has not solved protein folding by dekhn on Friday December 04, 2020 @02:35PM (#25306654)
Right. The challenging thing about protein folding is that we've been able to probe protein folding in numerous ways but none of them actually give a direct picture of what the process of folding looks like. That is, the specific physical configuration trajectories/envelope followed by an ensemble of folding proteins.