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A recent Rinshoken conference featuring adgerents of both X-ray crystallography and NMR emphasized the need for using a combination of approaches to solve the sturctures of large molecules.
Protein structure of prediction methods, critically assessed at Asilomar, California, are starting to work, combining ideas descended from two lines of thought: from Darwin and from Boltzmann and Schrodinger.