Most predicted drug pockets in the apicomplexan dark proteome are artefacts of non-globular structure.
Structural genomics is used to find drug targets among the proteins a genome leaves unnamed: a protein with no sequence homologue but a confidently predicted fold looks both novel and tractable. I show that in Plasmodium falciparum this reasoning fails four times before it reaches a target list. Of 1017 confidently mod...