Very interesting paper shows some suggestive evidence that release of AlphaFold caused researchers to work with more novel proteins than the…

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A recent paper presents suggestive evidence that the public release of AlphaFold shifted researcher behavior toward studying more novel, less-characterized proteins — presumably because AlphaFold lowered the structural barrier to investigating proteins that previously lacked experimentally determined structures. The findings are described as correlational/suggestive rather than conclusively causal. This aligns with the broader documented impact of AlphaFold in democratizing access to protein structure predictions across the scientific community.

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Source: applications

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