[dekhn]

yes, and that's the reason I went to work at google: to get access to their distributed systems and use ML to scale up biology. I never was able to join Google Research and do the work I wanted (but DeepMind went ahead and solved protein structure prediction, so, the job got done anyway).

[shpongled]

They really didn't solve it. AF works great for proteins that have a homologous protein with a crystal structure. It is absolutely useless for proteins with no published structure to use as a template - e.g. many of the undrugged cancer targets in existence.

[shpongled]

@dekhn it is true (I also work in the field. I'm a software engineer who got a wet-lab PhD in biochemistry and work at a biotech doing oncology drug discovery)

[dekhn]

that's not true (I work in the field) but it's not an interesting argument to have.