Forum:What are the most influential Bioinformatics/Computational Biology papers/methods/discoveries of 2021?

Question

[Raony Guimarães]

Hi everyone,

It's that time of the year again :)

What are the most influential Bioinformatics/Computational Biology papers/methods/discoveries of 2021?

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Answer 1

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03819-2

Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

this is the answer.

[Mensur Dlakic]

Nothing else comes close. The paper has 900+ citations in less than half a year.