PDF《arXiv:0705.1845v1 [physics.bio-ph]》

What don'

t we know?'

[18], a selection of the hundred most interesting yet unanswered scienti?c questions was presented. What indicates the role of proteins, and particularly of the protein folding problem (treated in section 3), as focuses of interdisciplinary collaboration is not the inclusion of the question Can we predict how proteins will fold?, which was a must, but the large number of other questions which were

1 Herein, we shall use the British convention for naming large numbers;

in which 109='

a thousand million'

, 1012='

a billion'

, 1015='

a thousand billion'

, 1018='

a trillion'

, and so on.

2 The Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems, which the author is part of, constitutes an example of this rather new form of collaboration among scientists.

4 related to or even dependent on it, such as Why do humans have so few genes?, How much can human life span be extended?, What is the structure of water?, How does a single somatic cell become a whole plant?, How many proteins are there in humans?, How do proteins ?nd their partners?, How do prion diseases work?, How will big pictures emerge from a sea of biological data?, How far can we push chemical self-assembly? or ........