RozzychanMar 14

#Knitting #craft #fiberArt #proteomics

I am so interested in whether knitting techniques that make 3D shapes can be used to help understand protein folding.

Knitting using continuous strings to make these complex shapes, and it has to do with things like tension and materials, and I see this can have an analogy with the primary, secondary, and tertiary structures.

can we use similar strategies to engineer protein shapes from sequence?

Show threadElizenery🔻Mar 14
@Rozzychan I'd place my bet on #crochet rather than knitting. If you search for crochet and science, or crochet and maths, you'll find some interesting stuff.
Show threadDan Drake 🦆
@lisettedeboer @Rozzychan I only do crochet, and am a mathematician -- so I do love crochet and math(s). But I would hesitate to sell knitting short! There is a *lot* of mathematics there, too.
Mar 14 at 9:14pmWeb
Show threadElizenery🔻Mar 14
@ddrake @Rozzychan I do both crochet and knitting. Totally aware of the maths involved in both. And counting can be surprisingly difficult 🙈 . For exploratory work I think crochet is more suitable. More flexible for playing around. But perhaps that's because I'm more experienced in crocheting.