Comment by VikingCoder
2 years ago
> but other famous labs have already moved to ML predictions and are competitive with DeepMind now.
That's great! AlphaFold DB mas made 200 million structure predictions available for everyone. How many structure predictions have other famous labs made available for everyone?
As many as you wanted to throw at them, considering the vast majority are open source and could be run on your own server cluster. CASP15 is ongoing so by the end of the year we will know how much absolute progress has been made by others.
Google has the advantage of the biggest guns here: the fastest TPUs with the most memory in the biggest clusters, so running inference with a massive number of protein sequences is much easier for them.
Many teams have been predicting structures for enormous numbers of proteins for some time now. It's just that nobody had any confidence in the predictions.