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To: catnipman
Somehow I doubt they’ve COMPLETELY simulated this organism.

Do you think they 'mapped' the organism. In other words, a very general map?

9 posted on 07/21/2012 11:16:43 AM PDT by sr4402
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To: sr4402

It’s hard to say what they actually did without reading the paper itself, but I can assure you that they did not simulate every molecule in that organism.

The knowledge for doing that is insufficient by at least a thousand orders of magnitude not to mention that the necessary computing power is a million orders of magnitude lacking. For instance, look at something as relatively simple as protein folding; given any specific gene sequence for a functional protein, science is still unable to predict what it’s folded 3-D structure will be.

And besides, one is getting close to quantum-level behavior in dealing with massively complex molecular machines, in which case total predictability is impossible anyway. The best that could be done might be a statistical simulation in that case. But that’s a long ways off too.


11 posted on 07/21/2012 11:32:48 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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