It's comparing effort to effort.
>assembler is a bootstrap tinkering thing, while (i)PFP is just (lots) of
>crunch. Engineering bacteria and jarvesting proteins in (k)g quantities
>from fermenters is not particularly hard.
Just using lots of cpu power won't solve the PFP, at least not before
rod-logic computers are cheap.
>> Markus Krummenacker have some well thought out plans about making an
>> assembler from protein and dna that doesn't seem to require any software
>
>Doesn't _seem_. I do not see how I can engineer enzymes, and design
>good-fit complementary surfaces without a full-blown IPFP. Btw, granted
Instead of engineering new proteins, just build things by attaching
known proteins to each other and to dna.
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