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by PaulHoule 665 days ago
When I was in grad school they were trying hard to recruit people for a program of understanding protein folding in terms of the molecular dynamics of the protein chain in water. It was a doomed effort because it became clear eventually that proteins get folded as much as they “fold” so the protein, by itself, may not contain all the information needed to understand the structure.