During my decade long stint working in labs that worked more closer to actual therapies, I've never once referred to a mol.dyn paper or needed those results. Crystallography, sure. Super useful. Mol Dynamics or folding experiments not exactly.
Which is fine for basic science, I'm sure there's a possibility some of these folding experiments will lead to insights of actual use in the long-term. However folding@home et al disingenuously portray this immediate effect on curing aids or the latest scare, which I doubt is truly that useful.
I'd argue that this simulation research is as useful for covid19 therapeutic research as banning plastic straws is to solve global warming.
Which is fine for basic science, I'm sure there's a possibility some of these folding experiments will lead to insights of actual use in the long-term. However folding@home et al disingenuously portray this immediate effect on curing aids or the latest scare, which I doubt is truly that useful.
I'd argue that this simulation research is as useful for covid19 therapeutic research as banning plastic straws is to solve global warming.