Thread says AlphaFold 2 under-cited a 2002 protein-structure pipeline
SchmidhuberAI · x · 2026-07-29
A thread argues that the 2021 AlphaFold paper under-cited earlier protein-structure prediction work, especially a 2002 Baldi/Pollastri pipeline that reportedly used a very similar MSA-based approach at far higher compute cost.
It frames the debate as one of research lineage and attribution: the author claims the key idea predates AlphaFold 2 by decades and points to even earlier work from the late 1980s, while also noting a personal connection to DeepMind through a former student.
Related event: Schmidhuber Claims AlphaFold Undercited Early Protein Prediction Work(2 posts)→
More from Research
- Small-model orchestration roughly doubled task completion in a 100-task benchmark — _raydeStar · 2026-07-29
- Paper adds a human-only authorship attestation to a quantum matrix result — burny_tech · 2026-07-29
- Biohub is hiring for an AI wet-lab role to build biology models — proteinrosh · 2026-07-29
- An AI digest scans 92 journals every week and turns them into one RSS feed — Afinetheorem · 2026-07-29
- A weekly PDB-synced leaderboard tracks open cofolding models — rishabh16_ · 2026-07-29
- Agentic AI Summit sets robotics and world models session with Sergey Levine and Jim Fan — dawnsongtweets · 2026-07-29