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Many years, we still have problems simulating a single protein folding correctly. If we don’t find some new algorithm for simulating cells we would need computers that are billions of times faster than our current ones.

Also your dna is bootstraped from your mothers cells. And the prenatal environment has quite a large effect on development so your simulation might end up quite different from you if we only started with your dna.



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