AlphaFold 2 is here: what’s behind the structure prediction miracle
> Like most bioinformatics programs, AlphaFold 2 comes equipped with a “preprocessing pipeline”, which is the discipline’s lingo for “a Bash script that calls some other codes”.<p>Having Bioinformatics people requiring to stray a long way from their core competency to learn a scripting language from the 80's to write glue code seems...  suboptimal.   How many hours of expert time has been wasted figuring out how to split a string in bash?<p>Can us software people build a better tool to eliminate the need for this?