Date
February 28, 2003
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Berkeley Lab Science Beat Berkeley Lab Science Beat
"ProteinShop": solving protein structures from scratch
     
 
     
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ProteinShop reads an unknown protein's string of amino acids and assembles the predicted secondary structures: in this case, "uncoiled" coils alternate with beta strands and a central alpha helix. Even for large proteins, this step is virtually instantaneous.