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Heather Kulik has said that materials lack an AlphaFold equivalent because the ground-truth material structures are unavailable.
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“Heather Kulik had said she famously said there is no alpha fold for materials, not just computationally, but the ground truth just doesn't exist.”Play from 33:18Report a misattribution
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