Many complex chemical systems obey self-organization rules in a twilight mesocale bigger than the atom, but smaller than the macroscopic world. The existence of numerous non-standard codes suggests it might not be the 'frozen accident' of evolutionary history once thought. For spectroscopic measurements there are good reasons why one might consider using nonuniformly nonsimultaneously sampled complex data. From the Real to the Virtual and Back This talk explores the principles of structure and function that dispose biological materials toward evolution. It also considers how these principles can be represented in computer programs.
Conformational interactions are the basis of specificity and self-assembly.
The protein structures found in nature represent only a small fraction of all possible folded configurations.