My question is based on this blog article from https://deepmind.com/blog/alphafold/ . The Google Deepmind Team have won the "Community Wide Experiment on the Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction" (CASP) **protein folding contest**. The contest is to find protein structure from amino acid sequence. The results as per this website seems great: http://predictioncenter.org/casp13/zscores_final.cgi?formula=assessors.  *Snapshot from [CASP website](http://predictioncenter.org/casp13/zscores_final.cgi?formula=assessors)* Note the zscore of A7D team(Google's team code). It is 62.27 And see the second position score: 42.89! See the difference! So my question is this: **What are the implications of Google Deepmind Alphafold team winning protein folding contest?** Will the [protein-folding problem](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2443096/) be solvable in near future? **Ref:** - [Dill, Ken A., et al. "The protein folding problem." Annu. Rev. Biophys. 37 (2008): 289-316.](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2443096/) - https://deepmind.com/blog/alphafold/ **StemQ Notice:** *This post was originally submitted on [StemQ.io](http://www.stemq.io), a Q&A application for STEM subjects powered by the Steem blockchain.*
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