> could this be applied in some manner to understanding protein folding? Ehhh. Probably not? It's hard to say without the algorithm, really. The main problem (

> could this be applied in some manner to understanding protein folding? Ehhh. Probably not? It's hard to say without the algorithm, really. The main problem (apart from not modelling any of the chemistry of proteins) would be what your target shape would be. You can consider a folded protein to be the 'blob' formed by taking the surface formed by rolling a water across the outer atoms. Or you could consider just the backbone as a kind of tube. An origami pattern for just the surface would have no internals. On the other hand, the pattern for the backbone would tell you nothing about how the sidechains and backbone interact.