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I guess the bigger question is: what can we actually do with this? They keep talking about new drugs for things like cancer, but even if you find a "match" with
by TaupeRanger 6y ago
I guess the bigger question is: what can we actually do with this? They keep talking about new drugs for things like cancer, but even if you find a "match" with x-ray crystallography today, that doesn't get you anywhere near a successful drug - there are hundreds more variables.
- dtech 6y agoFrom what I understand a quick and accurate algorithm for protein folding would allow researchers to more easily create proteins with the structure they want. Create a sequence, fold it, see if it has the desired structure, tweak sequence until done. This is quite useful since proteins perform basically all work in life