Some recent cheminformatics papers have been using “win rate” (i.e., how often a model is the best across a set of tasks) to evaluate benchmarking performance. Although it can be a useful proxy for how good a model is, I have some gripes with this metric, particularly if it is presented without additional context…
Visit blopig.com → RSS feedOn Hacker News Jul 2021 – Jul 2021
Nature has now released that AlphaFold 2 paper , after eight long months of waiting. The main text reports more or less what we have known for nearly a year, with some added tidbits, although it is accompanied by a painstaking description of the architecture in the supplementary information . Perhaps more importantly…
Disclaimer: this post is an opinion piece based on the experience and opinions derived from attending the CASP14 conference as a doctoral student researching protein modelling. When provided, quotes have been extracted from my notes of the event, and while I hope to have captured them as accurately as possible, I…