drug_design_PhC

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   by drug_design_PhC 9y ago

   > It's possible that it's very difficult to engineer a virus that can do better than anything nature has come up with As someone finishing a PhD in computer-aided drug discovery, this seems to be the situation in a lot of cases
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   by drug_design_PhC 9y ago

   > Coevolution was part of it, but the actual "breakthrough" in their paper was the use metagenome sequences for protein structure prediction Ah -- I hadn't read into the metagenomics aspect. That is quite substantial. Than
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   by drug_design_PhC 9y ago

   I was surprised to see the "breakthrough" in this article. The idea to use correlated mutations to identify contacting residues has been around since the 90's [1](if not earlier), but it seems like it's just now getting