AlphaFold2 Year 1: Did It Change the World?

DeepMind promised us a revolution. Did it happen?

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A year ago, AlphaFold2 was published in Nature. AlphaFold was presented during CASP13 (a competition where the goal is to predict the structure of proteins whose structure has been obtained but not yet published) where it outperformed the other competitors but without causing a stir. During the subsequent…