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Naively, a small protein of ~100 amino acid residues has ~21^100 configurations. Amino acids average 110 Daltons each (110g/mol), you would need approximately
by jcims 5y ago
Naively, a small protein of ~100 amino acid residues has ~21^100 configurations. Amino acids average 110 Daltons each (110g/mol), you would need approximately 3*10^107kg of matter to build them all. There is an estimated 10^53kg of matter in the known universe.