No, it is humans doing it by hand, and apparently that was really effective. I'm wondering how this deepmind system compares, or if humans are still king.
Solving Protein folding is low key one of the most important scientific endeavors. Understanding and being able to reconstruct the building blocks of the human body's (proteins) will make modern pharmacy/medicine obsolete.
For me, the most amazing part was the relative performance in the competition:
> On its first foray into the competition, AlphaFold topped a table of 98 entrants, predicting the most accurate structure for 25 out of 43 proteins, compared with three out of 43 for the second placed team in the same category.
though in looking at the link [1], I don't see that result very clearly...
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[ 134 ms ] story [ 663 ms ] thread> On its first foray into the competition, AlphaFold topped a table of 98 entrants, predicting the most accurate structure for 25 out of 43 proteins, compared with three out of 43 for the second placed team in the same category.
though in looking at the link [1], I don't see that result very clearly...
[1] http://predictioncenter.org/casp13/zscores_final.cgi