Protein pathway to molecular nanotechnology

Tweet Jonathan Pugh asked about the protein pathway and how the recent breakthrough to apply variational analysis to allow for the calculation of protein folding a billion times simpler could advance molecular nanotechnology.

One of Eric Drexler earliest papers discussed using proteins for molecular nanotechnology.

A major milestone would be to make a version 2.0 of a ribosome
A ribosome can be thought of as a factory that builds a protein from a set of genetic instructions. A ribosome has 2.3 million base pairs.

This article points to surveys of DNA and protein related technologies that could lead to molecular nanotechnology

Freitas and Merkle has details on various approaches to positional assembly using Proteins

This was mentioned in an early post on this site