Protein structure prediction from the complementary science perspective

VILA, JORGE A.

Biophysical Reviews

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH

Año: 2023 vol. 15 p. 439 - 445

1867-2450

A comparative analysis between two problems—apparently unrelated—which are solved in a period of ~400 years, viz., the accurate prediction of both the planetary orbits and the protein structures, leads to inferred conjectures that go far beyond the existence of a common path in their resolution, i.e., observation → pattern recognition → modeling. The preliminary results from this analysis indicate that complementary science, together with a new perspective on protein folding, may help us discover common features that could contribute to a more in-depth understanding of still-unsolved problems such as protein folding.