Short peptides are among the most intriguing building blocks in nanotechnology, but it would be very challenging to experimentally study the properties of large numbers of different sequences. Now, a computational analysis of all 8,000 possible tripeptides has been used to identify those with interesting self-assembly behaviour.
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Gazit, E. Searching sequence space. Nature Chem 7, 14–15 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.2140
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