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Nature 435, 547 (2 June 2005) | doi:10.1038/435547a; Published online 1 June 2005

Protein structures hint at the shape of things to come

Alison Abbott

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Consortium rapidly unravels dozens of structure puzzles.

In less than a year, an Anglo-Canadian group has worked out the structures of 50 complex proteins that are relevant to human disease.The recent explosion of genome sequence data led scientists to hope that working out protein structures could become automated and accelerated.