Talk:Secondary structure

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Introduction too detailed for the layman to understand the basic concept of secondary structure of proteins. Contains too much information that could be elaborated upon further in the body.


—Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.253.133.106 (talk) 02:43, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Deleted this as example of secondary structure:

such as the DNA "double helix."

since this seems like an example of quaternary structure, since it's 2 molecules. Anyway, RNA secondary structure is much more prominent.

Zashaw 04:34, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)


I wanted to discuss this sentence:

While the prediction of protein secondary strcture is relativly straightforward, predicting RNA secondary structure is much harder.

I didn't think that protein secondary structure prediction was so easy (very likely just due to ignorance). Could someone name a program or citation or something that shows how this is easy? Thanks.

Zashaw 22:16, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)


Want to add a section about amino acid propensities in secondary structure! --Dan|(talk) 18:10, 9 March 2006 (UTC)