> AlphaFold didn't solve a decades old protein folding problem. They substantially improved protein structure prediction but with important limits.
That is a bit of a semantic stretch and calling it substantial improvement for a 50-year (?) old computational bottleneck in structural biology is a bit of an understatement too. It has been a true breakthrough solving a problem humanity as of then thought it was impossible to tackle.
That is a bit of a semantic stretch and calling it substantial improvement for a 50-year (?) old computational bottleneck in structural biology is a bit of an understatement too. It has been a true breakthrough solving a problem humanity as of then thought it was impossible to tackle.