In bionet.molbio.proteins, John Kuszewski <johnk at spasm.niddk.nih.gov> wrote
:I will not discuss the details of the work I heard about,
:because it is not published and not my own work.
::I *did* overstate its success, though.
::It is *not* a solution to the folding problem.
::It is clever,though, does work (somewhat, sometimes), and
:suggests that in ten years, the folding problem will
:perhaps be solved.
::This is all I have to say. I'm very sorry to have
:brought it up. Everyone (including me, for some details)
:will have to wait for the paper to appear, which should
:be within a few months.
::I will never post about unpublished work, interesting
:or not, again.
::Now please, let up.
Sorry if my message came across as heavy-handed, which it seems to have
done. The protein folding problem is the Holy Grail of Biophysics and I
would have liked to have heard more. The original post kinda came out of
the blue and grabbed my attention. :-) I understand and respect your
decision to not comment on his work, although (IMHO) any commentary that
is prefaced with, "my interpretation of his work" or something along
that line is okay.
I included the works of Argos and others in the hope of stimulating a
discussion of the subject of folding with any possible info on Dr.
Rose's work being fit into that picture. Even without Dr. Rose's work
there is plenty to discuss.
Well, I'll shut up now before I do any more damage! :-)
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