[xg15]

Thanks a lot for the info.

> Proteins fold into their final shape from the chain of amino acids that DNA encodes. Protein folding in general is a hard problem.

My hope was that we had made progress in exactly that domain. Yes, the relationship between a nucleotide sequence and the resulting protein is extremely complex, but my impression was that we have tools to simulate the folding process for a given chain of amino acids (Folding@Home comes to mind).

So I was imagining a brute-force like process, where you (somehow) start with some candidate sequences, simulate how they would fold and use the sequence that comes closest to the molecule you wanted to have in the first place. Of course this only works if your target molecule can be assembled out of amino acids.