Ask HN: Best resources to learn about protein folding and algorithms for it?

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18 years ago

I have been interested in protein folding for a while and now have the time to dive into it.

I have waded through some articles on wikipedia and watched some youtube and done some googling but I haven't found any good resource for algorithms for protein folding or bioinformatics in general.

What can computer scientists do to help?

  *Invent better algoritms so biologists and chemists can run more experiments?

  * Is there some constraint, some condition, some fold we can do to find a new medicine or something?

A basic introduction to computational biology and relevant algorithms would be very appreciated.

I found this(genetic programming for protein folding): http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/bcd/Curric/ProtEn/121.html

Ah and ofc MIT: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Biology/7-91JSpring2004/CourseHome/

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