[ExI] Two New Papers

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 28/05/2026 11:40,John Clark wrote:
> There are two papers in today's issue of the journal Nature that are independent but I think are complementary to each other. One is about a huge increase in the number of protein structures that AI can predict, and the other is about hundreds or thousands of robots performing biochemical experiments on an industrial scale. An advance in both theoretical and experimental science. 
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> A new open-source  AI tool vastly increases the known protein universe.
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> Researchers hope to build a facility with thousands of robots capable of performing experiments independently


One of them is happening now, the other is 'hoped' to happen in 14 - 24 years. That's a looong time, especially these days. Presumably (hopefully!) they're not taking technological acceleration into account. I'll be disappointed if we don't have hundreds or thousands of such facilities all over the world within 5 years (not saying I'm expecting it, just that I'll be disappointed if it doesn't happen).

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Ben