JoshuaZ comments on For FAI: Is "Molecular Nanotechnology" putting our best foot forward? - Less Wrong Discussion
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Sure, see for example here which discusses some of the issues involved. Although your essential point may still have merit, because it is likely that many of the proteins we would want will have much more restricted shapes than those in general problem. Also, I don't know much about what work has been done in the last few years, so it is possible that the state of the art has changed substantially.