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by mensetmanusman 717 days ago
“ knowing the structure doesn't necessarily help you understand the biology ”

I think most everyone recognizes this, but also believes it is probably necessary to know the structure to understand the biology in the future. Ie a necessary yet insufficient advancement that is Nobel worthy.

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> but also believes it is probably necessary to know the structure to understand the biology in the future

I don't agree. Biology is really about systems - complex networks of biological interactions. The physically structure of it's components aren't required to understand those interactions at the system level if you can simply measure the interaction directly ( rather than trying to predict it poorly from a structure ).