At first, there might not seem to be much of a cross-over between protein folding and, say, running a web server or a database.

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They looked at the Pfam database, a repository of the amino-acid sequences of 260, 000 protein domains, to find out how easily, using the 30% figure as a guide, these could be clustered into groups that were single units from an analytical standpoint.

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