Given that we already had Alphafold... And we already had a big database of proteins... Running Alphafold on that database seems... unremarkable?

Was it a massive amount of computation that is inaccessible to anyone else? Is there a good reason to run it on the whole database, not just the handful of proteins you want to investigate?

To me the announcement is a bit like saying "we've run prime number analysis on every phone number in the united states!". Great... anyone could have done that... And nobody has done it yet because it wasn't super important to anyone.