AlphaFold Learned From 50 Years of Experiments, First-Principles Biology Still Needs Wet Labs
vishalmisra · x · 2026-10-26
Commenting on a Columbia CS professor-turned-entrepreneur who has spent decades and vast resources simulating biology from first principles: he still needs experiments. AlphaFold itself learned from five decades of experimentally determined protein structures — a pointed reminder that purely computational approaches rest on experimental data.
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