Wednesday, June 1, 2011

New algorithm helps engineers choose self-assembling proteins | KurzweilAI

New algorithm helps engineers choose self-assembling proteins | KurzweilAI: "The researchers’ algorithm works in three steps that successively eliminate proteins that will not produce the right shape. The elimination criteria are based on traits like symmetry, periodicity of binding sites, and similarity to protein “motifs” found in nature.

The result is a list of thousands of candidate proteins."

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