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Explain how the system that creates proteins can be predicted and how these predictions can change.

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There is a basic observation that similar sequences from the same evolutionary family often adopt similar protein structures, which forms the foundation of homology modeling. So far it is the most accurate way to predict protein structure by taking its homologous structure in PDB as template.

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