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Science 8 August 2008:
Vol. 321. no. 5890, pp. 784 - 786
DOI: 10.1126/science.321.5890.784
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Problem Solved*
(*sort of)

Robert F. Service

Researchers have toiled for decades to understand how floppy chains of amino acids fold into functional proteins. Learning many of those rules has brought them to the verge of being able to make predictions about proteins they haven't even discovered.

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PNAS 106, 3734-3739
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