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Comment author: DanielLC 05 November 2013 05:00:53AM 2 points [-]

I'm not sure protein folding can be brute forced without quantum computers. There's too many ways for it to fold. In real life, I'm pretty sure quantum tunneling gets involved. Simulations have worked, but I there's a limit to that.