Schmidhuber says AlphaFold overlooked earlier protein-structure prediction work
SchmidhuberAI · x · 2026-07-29
Schmidhuber argues that Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold paper overlooked earlier work on protein structure prediction.
- He says a 2002 Baldi and Pollastri pipeline already used MSA plus PSSM/profile matrices in a way similar to AlphaFold 2.
- He also points to even earlier work from 1988 as prior art.
- The post frames the issue as citation history and credit, not a claim about AlphaFold’s scientific value.
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