>Some proteins can be induced to form abnormal assemblies by exposure to the same (or similar) protein that has folded into a disease-causing conformation, a process called 'seeding' or 'permissive templating'
That sounds a lot like many computer viruses
>A computer virus is a type of malicious software that, when executed, replicates itself by modifying other computer programs and inserting its own code
It was an analogy and reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteopathy#Seeded_induction it sounds very much like they act like a piece of code corrupting another piece of code
>Some proteins can be induced to form abnormal assemblies by exposure to the same (or similar) protein that has folded into a disease-causing conformation, a process called 'seeding' or 'permissive templating'
That sounds a lot like many computer viruses
>A computer virus is a type of malicious software that, when executed, replicates itself by modifying other computer programs and inserting its own code