seven degrees of separation

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seven degrees of separation

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Starting with a database of all known structural features in proteins, researchers have performed a network analysis based on their similarities. The surprising result is that almost every protein we know of is related to the rest by seven degrees of separation. Click the next link to read the full article

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/200 ... ration.ars
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