You can definitely say "accurate to" in some cases: for instance, "The stopwatch is accurate to a thousandth of a second" would be entirely correct, and many dictionaries specifically list this use of the word accurate.
The question, then, is whether something can be accurate not only to an amount or measure (be those seconds, meters, or grams) or to n significant digits or n decimal places, but also to a thing.
Personally, I think your example sentence is correct. Other phrases I've found in the corpus include:
"a painting that seems accurate to life"
"in settings accurate to the period and locale"
"the movie was accurate to the Bible or attempted to be"
Other ways of saying your sentence would include:
"The building was built according to the schematics"
"The building adheres to/conforms to the schematics"
...but in both cases, I'd add "precisely" to make it obvious just how accurate the link between the building and the schematics is.
The first (accurately) as an adverb, which means "a word that describes a verb", ie that describes how a something is being done.
The second (accurate) is an adjective, which means "a word that describes a noun", ie that describes a "thing" rather than an action.
So, what is being described by accurate/accurately in this case? It's the modelling of protein structures. This is a verb, ie "to model". So, we're describing a verb, so we want an adverb rather than an adjective, ie "accurately".
That's the rule.
If we were talking about the model, rather than the process of modelling (ie a noun rather than a verb) we'd use the adjective, eg "How accurate is our model?"
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You can definitely say "accurate to" in some cases: for instance, "The stopwatch is accurate to a thousandth of a second" would be entirely correct, and many dictionaries specifically list this use of the word accurate.
The question, then, is whether something can be accurate not only to an amount or measure (be those seconds, meters, or grams) or to n significant digits or n decimal places, but also to a thing.
Personally, I think your example sentence is correct. Other phrases I've found in the corpus include:
Other ways of saying your sentence would include:
...but in both cases, I'd add "precisely" to make it obvious just how accurate the link between the building and the schematics is.