Devlog FC 1: New project!! And this one might be slightly crazy I started FoldCheck today. The idea came from something I found really interesting while looking into AlphaFold (an AI that predicts how proteins look): a predicted protein can look incredibly convincing in 3D, but that doesn’t necessarily mean every part of the prediction has the same level of confidence/is biologically accurate. That gave me the idea for FoldCheck. Instead of just showing someone a cool-looking protein model or giving it some random “accuracy score”, I want to build a tool where you can actually investigate the prediction. My goal is to eventually combine things like pLDDT, PAE, structural checks and experimental structures, then let you click into suspicious regions and understand why they deserve attention.A lot of today was honestly figuring out how I could turn that idea into something I can actually build. I planned out the main features and the science I’ll need, then set up the React project and started the website itself. I built the navigation, introduction, protein search area, example proteins and started designing the dark scientific interface. I also spent way longer than expected getting Hackatime working because it originally thought FoldCheck was my other project!. I eventually figured out how to give this workspace its own FoldCheck project, and seeing it finally appear separately was strangely satisfying. There’s still a lot left. Right now I’ve basically built the foundation. Next I want to get a real protein into the site, retrieve actual AlphaFold data, display the structure in interactive 3D and start analysing real pLDDT confidence values. This is definitely the hardest project I’ve attempted so far, which is also why I’m really excited about it. Hopefully the difference between this first screenshot and the finished FoldCheck is crazy!