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AI protein-folding algorithms solve structures faster than ever
- vikramkr 7y agoFeynman's quote comes to mind: "Nature isn't classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you'd better make it quantum mechanical, and by golly it's a wonderful problem, because it doesn't look so easy.”[0] I wonder if we'll ever be able to truly simulate protein folding using the techniques available to us now, or whether there are aspects of that process that are just so inherently quantum mechanical that we need qubits instead of bits to get to where we need to be. [0] https://www.nature.com/articles/nphys2258 https://www.nature.com/articles/nphys2258
- dekhn 7y agoyou dont need qubits to simulate proteins even if they require QM. Also, most people generally believe that to predict protein folds can be done just fine with classic force field approximations, and the data seems to support that.