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Calculating the Secrets of Life Contributions of the Mathematical Sciences to Molecular Biology (1995) / Chapter Skim
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... The next three chapters focus on the analysis of DNA and protein sequences. As new genes are sequenced, they are routinely compared with public databases to look for similarities that might indicate common evolutionary origin, structure, or function.
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... uses topology to infer the mechanism of enzymes that recombine DNA strands, providing a glimpse of details that cannot be seen via experiment. Finally, Chanter 9 ("Folding the Rh-Pt~"i aid ant of the hardest open questions in computational biology: the protein-folding problem, which concerns predicting the three-dimensional structure of a protein on the basis of the sequence of its amino acids.
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  • amino acid
  • structure prediction
  • amino acids
  • sequence comparison
  • dna molecules

  • common ancestor
  • protein sequences
  • dna molecule
  • dna structure
  • double helix

  • genome project
  • protein sequence
  • dna strands


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