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I'm not an expert in the topic by any means, but it feels to me like goal-post moving. Previously I had the impression they were saying 'protein folding' is the

I'm not an expert in the topic by any means, but it feels to me like goal-post moving. Previously I had the impression they were saying 'protein folding' is the key problem. Now they say, so what we can fold proteins, there is more to drug discovery than this. I guess this is natural with any scientific advance.

shakow 4y ago
> but it feels to me like goal-post moving Because the two ‶they″ in your sentence are different people. Sure, for fundamental researchers, solving protein folding is a big thing – and although AlphaFold made strides in this direction, it didn't ‶solve″ it on any metric. But the other they, DD guys, already knew for decades that protein folding is but a brick in the whole process.