Digital Health
A Breakthrough in Protein Folding Unfolds
Just like there are Olympic Games for world’s greatest athletes, for computational biologists, there is CASP (Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction). We just had the 13th competition (it takes place biannually). Until recently, it was just academic groups that played this game but now Tencent and Microsoft also show up. Like CASP12 in 2018, DeepMind’s AlphaFold came top but that is not the big news. The big news this time is by how much.