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My colleagues run numerous projects that transfer knowledge between computational research, including molecular simulations, and wetlab research as a routine. Computational and wetlab experiments are reguarly designed to complement each-other. Examples of numerous bio-phyiscs/bio-chemistry research done around me (ranging from research on ion channel dynamics [1] to drug permeability through the skin barrier [2,3], or cryo-em structure refinement just to name a few) strongly contradicts your experience as well as your final statement -- and than we've not even mentioned the drug binding affinity computations which is these days routinely done using molecular dynamics by both academia a pharma industry.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2018.03.10 [2] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsb.2018.04.005 [3] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jconrel.2018.05.026