# Levinthal's paradox

> paradox that the number of possible protein-folding configurations is too large, so that it is impossible that the lowest-energy configuration will be found purely thermodynamically

**Wikidata**: [Q899017](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q899017)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levinthal's_paradox)  
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## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
2. Quora