EDITORIAL 22 May 2024 Criticism of our decision to publish AlphaFold3 raises important questions. We welcome readers’ views. A technology cluster in Cambridge, Massachusetts, gives researchers from various sectors somewhere to collaborate easily.Credit: Brooks Kraft LLC/Corbis/Getty The latest iteration of the protein-structure-prediction algorithm AlphaFold has generated a great deal of interest since its release, accompanied by a paper in Nature, earlier this month1. Unlike its predecessor Alp...