Ahhh, I wondered about the importance of structure prediction for a long time, ever since reading those blog posts by a PSP researcher in academia who was compl

Ahhh, I wondered about the importance of structure prediction for a long time, ever since reading those blog posts by a PSP researcher in academia who was complaining that big pharma didn't invest in the field. He was asking "why was it Google who solved this problem and not a Pfizer or Bayer?" His posited explanation was a sort of cultural/institutional disinterest in advanced R&D, but that didn't sound very plausible compared to the other possibility that they just didn't care much about the problem to begin with. > That won't stop pharma from investing biobucks (virtual dollars that are gated by milestones) in them. I didn't quite follow this, could you maybe elaborate? What is a virtual dollar in this context? Do you mean they make promises of future payments if certain goals are achieved, but the dollars never become real because the goals aren't achievable? Re: math problems. I remember looking at Exacycle and wondering about that :) but concluded it would have been self defeating, as it'd just have resulted in Google dominating the network and that'd have been seen as an attack.