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Is folding@home obsolete now?
by candiddevmike 4y ago
Is folding@home obsolete now?
- seventytwo 4y agoGood question… I’d imagine that other methods of folding solutions are still valuable, because AlphaFold needs to be checked.
- dekhn 4y agoIt's not, but the question is (and has long been) whether the energy expended by folding@home is worth the scientific result. IMHO- probably not.
- foxhop 4y agoI would say no, the two approaches may be used to validate each other.
- flobosg 4y agoFolding@home answers a related but different question. While AlphaFold returns the picture of a folded protein in its most energetically stable conformation, Folding@home returns a video of the protein undergoing folding, traversing its energy landscape.