Research Notes: AlphaFold and the Science We Can Actually Do Now
What happens when a field’s fundamental bottleneck just disappears?
The spark came from reading MIT Technology Review’s coverage of AlphaFold 2 in late 2020, when DeepMind won the CASP14 competition. The phrase that caught me was from Venki Ramakrishnan, a Nobel laureate: this breakthrough “occurred decades before many people in the field would have pred…
