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by Jeronimus
Tue Nov 19, 2013 2:55 pm
Forum: Scientific discussions (Non-FAH)
Topic: How Useful Is F@H To The Public?
Replies: 10
Views: 3834

Re: How Useful Is F@H To The Public?

Several people have attempted to answer your "why" question, and that's the most important part anyway. With respect to the "device" part of your question, the classical method of determining protein shape of any protein that can be purified and crystallized is by x-ray diffract...
by Jeronimus
Fri Nov 15, 2013 6:32 pm
Forum: Scientific discussions (Non-FAH)
Topic: How Useful Is F@H To The Public?
Replies: 10
Views: 3834

Re: How Useful Is F@H To The Public?

A large part of F@h's work is figuring out why proteins mis fold, as that's the cause of many of the diseases that are being studied. I don't think you can get that information by scanning the folded structure of the protein in question. That makes sense, even though the "mis"fold might b...
by Jeronimus
Fri Nov 15, 2013 6:08 pm
Forum: Scientific discussions (Non-FAH)
Topic: How Useful Is F@H To The Public?
Replies: 10
Views: 3834

Re: How Useful Is F@H To The Public?

As for the machine question, it's kind of in between. They can get pictures of some biological folding, others they cannot. It's kind of like the problem of doing an autopsy on a live person. When they can do Crystallography, fah has matched those pictures very accurately, and has even won contests...
by Jeronimus
Fri Nov 15, 2013 11:14 am
Forum: Scientific discussions (Non-FAH)
Topic: How Useful Is F@H To The Public?
Replies: 10
Views: 3834

How Useful Is F@H To The Public?

Hello, i am thinking about joining this, but first i have a few questions which puzzled me. Assuming we had a device that can scan the structure of already folded proteins on a atomic/molecular level: Why would we then need f@h still? Would f@h give us any additional information and if yes, what kin...