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UEMcGill t1_iraqvlx wrote

Proteins are floppy for lack of a better word. They're long and stringy, and can have multiple results. Think of it like trying to react spaghetti, and each way you bend the spaghetti gives you a different result.

When I was in college in the early 90's I had professors spending lots of supercomputer time just trying to predict protein folding.

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