Interest
Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "peptides" over time.
Mentions
Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "peptides" over time.
Peptides are short chains of amino acids linked by peptide bonds. A polypeptide is a longer, continuous, unbranched peptide chain. Polypeptides that have a molecular mass of 10,000 Da or more are called proteins. Chains of fewer than twenty amino acids are called oligopeptides, and include dipeptides, tripeptides, and tetrapeptides. Proteins are polypeptides, i.e. large peptides. Read more on Wikipedia