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The comment about B-splines versus Hermite splines is a little dubious. B-splines and Hermite splines are two different representations for the same underlying piecewise polynomial curve. In fact the article on B-spline points out that "A fundamental theorem states that every spline function of a given degree, smoothness, and domain partition, can be represented as a linear combination of B-splines of that same degree and smoothness, and over that same partition." Therefore, problems of fitting the data are all in how the fitting problem is posed, and have nothing to do with the choice between these two equivalent basis functions.
I think the article is better off if it simply says that a polynomial spline is fitted through the points, and leaves aside the implementation details of which representation is chosen for the spline. JohnAspinall (talk) 18:11, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
I see this article has the style of writing for the professional which is fine but it doesn't do much to help introduce the topic to outsiders of the field. I would like to see a short introduction that is more friendly to someone who has absolutely no background in the field of microbiology, and which would quickly covers the basics of protein structure and formation by DNA. Once that is done, the article can launch off into its current format.
And why, I can hear professionals asking, would this be useful? It is because molecular modeling has become so easily accessible to the average person. Used to be that you needed time on a mainframe to render such diagrams, but that is not the case anymore. The free Mac/Windows software called "Avogadro" makes molecular modeling almost stupid-simple for anyone to dive into and play with, and the tools are only going to get better and easier.
So I'd like to see something in here at the lead of the article for people with absolutely no experience at all, who've downloaded a sample CHM protein model and played with it in a super-easy modeler tool like Avogadro, to help give them a quick grasp of what these ribbons are, what they represent, why proteins are ribbons and not discrete atomic pieces like machines, etc.
DMahalko (talk) 23:11, 20 September 2008 (UTC)