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The first author of AlphaFold paper is John Jumper. John Jumper wrote a PhD thesis on protein folding. It is not true that AlphaFold team did not have domain e
by sanxiyn 4y ago
The first author of AlphaFold paper is John Jumper. John Jumper wrote a PhD thesis on protein folding.
It is not true that AlphaFold team did not have domain expertise. I would accept that AlphaFold team had less domain expertise than expected. Could it be done with no domain expertise? Maybe, maybe not, but AlphaFold is not an evidence either way.
- fny 4y agoI exaggerated. Jumper was a few years out of grad school competing against groups like the Baker Lab which are household names in the protein design community. A lot of faculty shocked when AlphaFold 1 was released. AlphaFold 2 /really/ hit hard because the model used was even more "dumb" in that in leveraged even less domain knowledge in it's construction.