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It just occurred to me that Ray Kurzweil's claim entails that we can solve protein folding.
by knowtheory 16y ago
It just occurred to me that Ray Kurzweil's claim entails that we can solve protein folding.
- jacquesm 16y agoWe can solve protein folding, we're doing that on a daily basis. We just can't do it fast enough (yet) because we're using (somewhat constrained) brute force for a search space with a very large number of dimensions. As a consequence of that the computations with the current algorithms are for practical reasons limited to relatively small proteins. But the methods are as far as I understand well understood and it is more of an optimization problem than something unsolved. Edit: or did you mean 'solved' in an analytical way?