• Question: how many protein shadows do you look at per day?

    Asked by anon-233434 to Varun on 12 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Varun Ramaswamy

      Varun Ramaswamy answered on 12 Nov 2019:


      Ah, nice one mate.

      To get a complete structure of one protein, I need at least 20,000 shadows. Thats because proteins have complicated shapes and so their shadows look different from every angle. Some proteins even require a million shadows!

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