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by COGlory 701 days ago
60% is freaking nothing in protein space. Like, that's not something to brag about. I could go through and hand edit GFP to 60% identity and get basically GFP still functional at the end.

In grad school, I worked on proteins that were 12%-15% sequence identical but had sub 4 Å RMSDs once the structures were solved.

EDIT: Actually, bragging about it could be a nigerian prince thing, where they do it to scare away investors that might actually hold them to some standard.