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by mandoline 648 days ago
This is an exciting result – but knowledge of protein structure is usually not a limiting factor in drug discovery: https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/why-alphafold-wont-re...

Would be interesting to try to estimate the impact of results like these across the drug development pipeline.

E.g. N% improvement on our most predictive benchmarks X, Y, Z could impact clinical success by M% +- E% (where E would likely be quite large).