Protein Design: Nature's Math Origami

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winstonalden (65) 7 years ago

This is a hell of an article. The complexity of proteins (and most of biology, to be honest) always leaves me feeling amazed that life is possible at all. I mean, I thought my car engine was complicated, but just look at this stuff!

I wish I had the time to read and absorb it all. But I'm grateful for metaphors like this:

To make this relatable, think of calculating the type, size, angle and moment to throw a sheet of paper at the wind so it folds itself into a crane.

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ertwro (62) 7 years ago

Thanks. Analogies are the finall process of induction. I try to use them as much as I can. Glad you enjoyed.

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galotta (58) 7 years ago

Yes that is a challenge for numerical optimization and other fields, probably you will always need serious computation power though.
But then again already deciphering the complete quantum chemistry of even a small molecule with relativistic and quantum electrodynamic corrections is in gereral a devious task ^^

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ertwro (62) 7 years ago

It is indeed :)

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turtledance24 (58) 7 years ago

you were missing for years, i guess you cashed out and went to vacation when BTC went up to 8k! atleast give me some steem! LOL

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ertwro (62) 7 years ago

Hahaha It's only been a week, Turtle. I've been working and studying so I had to take some time off. Although, I took a break for the BCH pump. It was an amazing day.

Don't worry, I'll be around.

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icedrum (70) 7 years ago (edited)

Stunning and beautiful post!
The "Rick" sign out is well deserved!
I have a somewhat less weighty question... how did you achieve that beautiful youtube video to autoplay at the top of the page? Fantastic presentation!

Upvoted, resteemed and following you now for more mind blowing material!

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ertwro (62) 7 years ago (edited)

Is not a video, is actually a gif. You can create a .gif using giphy.com from a video you want

After I created the .gif I edit it on ezgif.com, where I can crop it, compress it or modify the order of the panels I want such that the first image would become the part of the gif I want to be the thumbnail by modifying the duration. (I drag the image to the first place then set the duration, "delay")

The made it clickable through HTML and linked it to the original YouTube video.

Here's the HTML. You just need to copy and replace the parts you need.

template

<a href="Link to the video goes here" target="_blank" ><img src="Link to gif Image goes here" title="Title of Image here" alt="" rel="noopener" height="50%" width="50%" /></a><center>[text not in hyperlink here <a href="Link to the text goes here">Text in blue that is the link here</a> other text no in the link] </center>

example:

^{[Magnetic fiel emanating from an aternating current in a loop UNSW]}

Compare to changes to the template

<a href="https://youtu.be/0LAQ6_H7BJc"><center><img src="https://media.giphy.com/media/d30r7zwqzf1P3T7W/giphy.gif" title="electromagnetic dipoles" alt="Faraday law" rel="noopener" height="50%" width="50%" /></center></a><center>[Magnetic fiel emanating from an aternating current in a loop<a href="https://youtu.be/0LAQ6_H7BJc"> UNSW</a>]</center>

Hope it's useful.

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icedrum (70) 7 years ago (edited)

Hello JP,
Ahhh of course ... a GIF!! haha. Thank you so much for the wonderfully detailed info and templates.

You are a Steem god! - Thank you for all you do :D

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keks (56) 7 years ago

Good post and yes tommrow never will come finsh it today.

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