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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (33620)	4/3/1999 12:23:00 AM
From: Chuzzlewit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

LRR, I doubt that the vision that you have will ever be attained for many reasons, not the least of which is the fact that the structure of the genetic material does not allow for structural scanning of meaning. In other words, you need to decode the codons to decide what the primary structure of the resultant protein molecule will do. There is simply no way around this. We have tools to view tertiary structure for many but not all proteins. The tools are all the same -- X-ray crystallography and related techniques work wonderfully provided you can grow nice crystals -- not always possible. And there are some pretty sophisticated algorithims that can do a decent job at tertiary structure prediction. But you are correct in terms of predicting a protein action absent a good 3D rendering. I think you are missing the thrust of the argument. You don't mess with the adaptive apparatus unless you know the consequences. And the consequences of genetic engineering can be disastrous in case of mistakes. TTFN, CTC