Molecular simulation quotes #1

… if you really want to understand the detailed molecular interactions that make it go in a particular direction, make certain contacts, break other contacts, hydrolyze GTP, you know, form bonds, etcetera, and do it all amazingly accurately, then you do need a high resolution picture of those states. But, that’s not going to be enough. It’s going to take a lot of work by biochemists, by computational people who do molecular dynamics and things like that to really, eventually, understand it in the sense that we would understand, say, a more typical reaction.

~ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, in his Nobel prize phone interview
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2009/ramakrishnan-telephone.html