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Tackling biology's big question

Nature Methods volume 2, page 803 (2005)Cite this article

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Working from opposite ends of the protein folding problem, two research teams have developed powerful mathematical strategies that offer the potential to greatly clarify the relationship between primary sequence and native structure.

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Figure 1: Mathematical approaches to the protein folding problem.

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  1. Allison Doerr
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Doerr, A. Tackling biology's big question. Nat Methods 2, 803 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth1105-803

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