Proteins by design
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Novel proteins and folds are being built from scratch by computational structural biology or computing amino acid sequences that will fold to create enzymatic activities not previously seen in nature. A computer program called ROSETTA is used for computing the energy of given protein conformation and to test millions of conformations of energy structures and this protein design methodology has can be used in studying diseases like Alzheimer and Parkinson's and also has commercial implications.
Publication Name: The Scientist
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0890-3670
Year: 2006
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The shape of pathogenic proteins
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Number of research papers, which illustrates the size, structure, and infectivity of different prion proteins are presented.
Publication Name: The Scientist
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0890-3670
Year: 2007
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Eran Segal: computing expression
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The research studies conducted by Eran Segal in designing computational models of gene expression are presented.
Publication Name: The Scientist
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0890-3670
Year: 2008
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