Optima in Evolution

[Giltil (Gilbert Thill)]

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2. Protein folds are rare in sequence space

Are they? How rare is “rare”?

Very rare. You can see this in table 1 of the paper I referred to at 102. Here it is:

The rarity in the sequence space of the 10 protein folds investigated by the authors is given in column 4 under the label SC*.