Levinthal's paradox is a thought experiment in the field of computational protein structure prediction; protein folding is the process by which peptides reach a stable native configuration. In theory, a brute force search, testing all possible conformations, would take longer than the age of the universe to identify this minimum energy configuration (the native state).
Levinthal's paradox is a thought experiment in the field of computational protein structure prediction; protein folding is the process by which peptides reach a stable native configuration. In theory, a brute force search, testing all possible conformations, would take longer than the age of the universe to identify this minimum energy configuration (the native state).
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