The subject line for Isabel's email is very good. I do have a question (more a request) for the more computer scientist oriented people. I think it is relevant for where this technology will be going. It comes from trying to understand whether problems addressed by Alpha are NP, NP hard, NP complete etc. My understanding is that the previous successes of Alpha were for complete information games such as Chess and Go. Both the rules and the present position were available to both sides. The folding problem might be in a different category. It would be nice if someone could explain the difference (if any) between Go and the protein folding problem perhaps using the NP type categories.
Colin From: CCP4 bulletin board <CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> On Behalf Of Isabel Garcia-Saez Sent: 03 December 2020 11:18 To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [ccp4bb] AlphaFold: more thinking and less pipetting (?) Dear all, Just commenting that after the stunning performance of AlphaFold that uses AI from Google maybe some of us we could dedicate ourselves to the noble art of gardening, baking, doing Chinese Calligraphy, enjoying the clouds pass or everything together (just in case I have already prepared my subscription to Netflix). https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03348-4 Well, I suppose that we still have the structures of complexes (at the moment). I am wondering how the labs will have access to this technology in the future (would it be for free coming from the company DeepMind - Google?). It seems that they have already published some code. Well, exciting times. Cheers, Isabel Isabel Garcia-Saez PhD Institut de Biologie Structurale Viral Infection and Cancer Group (VIC)-Cell Division Team 71, Avenue des Martyrs CS 10090 38044 Grenoble Cedex 9 France Tel.: 00 33 (0) 457 42 86 15 e-mail: isabel.gar...@ibs.fr<mailto:isabel.gar...@ibs.fr> FAX: 00 33 (0) 476 50 18 90 http://www.ibs.fr/ ________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 -- This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential, copyright and or privileged material, and are for the use of the intended addressee only. If you are not the intended addressee or an authorised recipient of the addressee please notify us of receipt by returning the e-mail and do not use, copy, retain, distribute or disclose the information in or attached to the e-mail. Any opinions expressed within this e-mail are those of the individual and not necessarily of Diamond Light Source Ltd. Diamond Light Source Ltd. cannot guarantee that this e-mail or any attachments are free from viruses and we cannot accept liability for any damage which you may sustain as a result of software viruses which may be transmitted in or with the message. Diamond Light Source Limited (company no. 4375679). Registered in England and Wales with its registered office at Diamond House, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0DE, United Kingdom ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/
