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It wasn't entirely clear from the wiki page, but can this notation be used to describe every type of tangled shape, including those such as the twisted proteins
by Firerouge 9y ago
It wasn't entirely clear from the wiki page, but can this notation be used to describe every type of tangled shape, including those such as the twisted proteins folding@home attempts to untangle?
- rflrob 9y agoMy understanding of knot theory is pretty limited, but very few proteins are topologically different from a straight line—while there are lots of wiggles back and forth, if you pulled really hard on the ends, you would in most cases have no knots in it.