Yes, I do not know how to feel about this. On the one hand it is great that they found this and made the results public before trying any followup microbiologic

Yes, I do not know how to feel about this. On the one hand it is great that they found this and made the results public before trying any followup microbiological research. On the other hand, they seem to say: we, engineers, did in two years what you, scientist, failed in doing the last 20 years. They could have just written a clean scientific paper and mention AlphaFold in their methodology section.