Re:AlphaFold developers win $3M breakthrough prize
by avsteele on Sunday September 25, 2022 @03:38PM
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Here are some counterpoints:
https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/why-alphafold-wont-re...
I personally know several people that do research that have unlocked new possibilities through this tool. My wife is a neuroscientist and she's used this tool a few times for reasons that are above my head (even with a Msc in Microbiology). This type of work used to take a PhD student 4 years or more to do a single relatively simple protein. Getting answers within a few seconds is revolutionary.