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AlphaFold 3 predicts biomolecular complex structures but reports limitations including clashes, stereochemistry errors and hallucinated regions.
MethodBiologyDiffusion-based design and independent validationRFdiffusion generates proposed protein backbones and constrained designs.
MethodBiologyHDX opening energies and model assumptionsIn the EX2 opening model, exchange rates constrain approximate opening free energies.
MethodBiologyMeasured protein landscapes: 2026 studyFerrari and colleagues profile 5,778 small domains with multiplexed HDX-MS and compare 13 domains with site-resolved HDX NMR.
Empirical findingBiologyDiffusion-driven instability and developmental patternsTuring proposed that reacting and diffusing morphogens can destabilize an initially homogeneous equilibrium and generate patterned states.
ModelBiologyCell traction as an inverse mechanical problemTraction microscopy infers forces from cell-induced substrate displacements using a substrate mechanics model.
MethodBiologyPredicting functional landscapes from structuresPredicting conformational free energies, kinetics and function from sequence/static structures remains an open research challenge.
Open questionBiologyProbabilistic immune-receptor historiesIGoR infers generative V(D)J models by considering alternative gene choices, deletions and insertions for each receptor sequence.
ModelBiologyGeneration probability versus immune selectionA receptor’s abundance or generation probability is not itself its antigen affinity.
MethodBiologyCalcium signals and calibrated spike inferenceCalcium fluorescence is an indirect activity proxy, and spike inference depends on indicator dynamics, noise and the trained/calibrated model.
MethodBiologyGCaMP8 inference: 2026 benchmarkRupprecht and colleagues benchmark GCaMP8 inference against simultaneous mouse-neocortical electrophysiology.
Empirical findingBiologyAdult fly wiring: 2024 structural evidenceFlyWire reconstructs chemical-synapse wiring in a sampled adult female Drosophila brain using electron microscopy and proofreading.
Empirical findingBiologyMICrONS structure–function evidenceMICrONS combines visual-response calcium imaging and dense electron-microscopy reconstruction in one mouse visual-cortical volume.
Empirical findingBiologyForward evolutionary simulation and census timingForward simulators encode reproduction, mutation, recombination, selection and population regulation through a specified life cycle.
ModelBiologyNiche stabilization and neutral similarityNiche differences and near-neutral fitness similarities can act concurrently in a competition–colonization model.
ModelBiologyEvolutionary synthesis and competing emphasesThe 2014 point/counterpoint compares emphasis on developmental bias, plasticity, niche construction and broader inheritance with the view that evolutionary theory already integrates such evidence.
ModelBiologyIdentifying eco-evolutionary feedbacksEcological change and heritable trait change can influence one another, but parallel time-series changes do not identify their causal directions.
Open questionEarth & cosmosBayesian geophysical inverse problemsAn inverse solution is a posterior distribution conditioned on observations, a forward operator, likelihood and prior.
MethodEarth & cosmosLinearized sensitivities and regularized resolutionLinearizing d=g(m) about m0 gives a sensitivity matrix J.
MethodEarth & cosmosSurface temperature retrieval and emissivityThermal radiance retrieval separates surface temperature from emissivity and atmospheric absorption/emission using a specified forward model and ancillary inputs.
MethodEarth & cosmosSAR displacement and stereo topographyDifferential radar phase constrains displacement along the satellite line of sight after orbital, topographic and atmospheric corrections.
MethodEarth & cosmosEnsemble data assimilationEnsemble assimilation estimates forecast-error covariances from model realizations and updates the state using observations and their error model.
MethodEarth & cosmosClimate detection, attribution and model evaluationFingerprinting compares observed patterns with simulated responses to specified forcing and internal-variability covariance.
MethodEarth & cosmosErtel potential vorticity and baroclinic instabilityDry atmospheric Ertel potential vorticity combines absolute vorticity and the potential-temperature gradient per unit density.
MethodEarth & cosmosReal seawater thermodynamics and densityTEOS-10 seawater calculations distinguish Absolute Salinity, Conservative Temperature and sea pressure.
MethodEarth & cosmosNonlinear seawater mixing and cabbelingMixing waters can change density through nonlinear temperature/salinity dependence even when each source has the same density at the reference pressure.
MethodEarth & cosmosNonideal mineral phase equilibriumA mineral assemblage at specified pressure, temperature and bulk composition minimizes Gibbs energy subject to component balance.
MethodEarth & cosmosMineral thermodynamic databases and elastic inferenceCombining mineral phase fractions with elastic properties can predict seismic velocities, but equilibrium databases and shear-modulus data have separate calibration domains.
MethodEarth & cosmosDiffusion, cooling and isotope closureAn apparent thermochronological age depends on diffusion kinetics, grain geometry and cooling history.
MethodEarth & cosmosInherited components, discordance and isotope uncertaintyU–Pb discordance can reflect common lead, radiogenic lead loss, initial daughter disequilibrium or mixtures of differently aged growth zones.
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