Re: Models and ecosystem balance/change...

[Jack Park <***>]

At a lunch table in Santa Fe, Robert Rosen told several of us that he 
had discovered a different way (than energy minimization) to fold 
proteins. He said that he couldn't get any funding to develop it since 
the funding reviewers were, as I recall his statement, drawn from those 
with vested interests in the energy methods. I offered and he expressed 
interest in my finding a funding channel through the SBIR process. He 
never followed up on my request for comments on the proposal I began to 
draft.

Jack

Howard Pattee wrote:

> At 11:38 PM 12/10/04 -0500, Judith wrote:
>
> > He [Rosen] used the example of protein folding to show that genes only 
> > code for the protein sequence, but in order for the protein to become 
> > active, it has to fold into a "tertiary" shape, which proteins in 
> > living systems spontaneously do. But how? That's the kind of thing 
> > that needs looking into.
>
>
> HP: Since Rosen's last pessimistic views of protein folding (e.g., LI p. 
> 270) a new discipline has been looking into it. See for example 
> http://folding.stanford.edu/science.html
> or Google "protein folding".
>
> Howard