[tallhappy]

How long was ribosome structure worked on and how much was worked out and known before crystals were available?

You are striking me as dimwitted and without curiousity.

[Right Wing Professor]

How long was ribosome structure worked on and how much was worked out and known before crystals were available?

Once the X-ray structure was known, most of the previous work on prediction of the RNA fold from the sequence was superseded.

You are striking me as dimwitted and without curiousity

Take your ad hominem and stick it somewhere warm.

Exactly what point are you trying to make here? If there are major conclusions about ribosome function that can be made from sequence comparison, state them.

[Constantine XIII]

You are striking me as being horribly rude. :P

[Constantine XIII]

BTW, people do not read papers in scientific journals UNLESS they are very curious. Usually, it isn't exactly light reading!