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		spacecity1971 on July 22, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AlphaFold Protein Structure Database Quick question, please excuse my ignorance, but is there a way to extrapolate sequence from structure? In other words, can we design proteins and calculate the sequence required to make it?

kmckiern on July 22, 2021 [–]

It's hard but people do it! This is the field of "protein engineering".

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