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Deep Learning (DL) algorithms hold great promise for applications in the field of computational biophysics. In fact, the vast amount of available molecular structures, as well as their notable complexity, constitutes an ideal context in…

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Background: Many attempts have been made to resolve in time the folding of model proteins in computer simulations. Different computational approaches have emerged. Some of these approaches suffer from the insensitivity to the geometrical…

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Protein structures in nature often exhibit a high degree of regularity (secondary structures, tertiary symmetries, etc.) absent in random compact conformations. We demonstrate in a simple lattice model of protein folding that structural…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Hao Li , Robert Helling , Chao Tang , Ned Wingreen

While many good textbooks are available on Protein Structure, Molecular Simulations, Thermodynamics and Bioinformatics methods in general, there is no good introductory level book for the field of Structural Bioinformatics. This book aims…

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Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2013-06-07 Jacques M. Bahi , Wojciech Bienia , Nathalie Côté , Christophe Guyeux

In this paper we introduce a novel method of deriving a pairwise potential for protein folding. The potential is obtained by optimization procedure, which simultaneously maximizes the energy gap for {\it all} proteins in the database. To…

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Many protein design applications, such as binder or enzyme design, require scaffolding a structural motif with high precision. Generative modelling paradigms based on denoising diffusion processes emerged as a leading candidate to address…

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Circular permutation connects the N and C termini of a protein and concurrently cleaves elsewhere in the chain, providing an important mechanism for generating novel protein fold and functions. However, their in genomes is unknown because…

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In the course of evolution, proteins show a remarkable conservation of their three-dimensional structure and their biological function, leading to strong evolutionary constraints on the sequence variability between homologous proteins. Our…

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Pre-trained models have been successful in many protein engineering tasks. Most notably, sequence-based models have achieved state-of-the-art performance on protein fitness prediction while structure-based models have been used…

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Prediction of protein structures using computational approaches has been explored for over two decades, paving a way for more focused research and development of algorithms in comparative modelling, ab intio modelling and structure…

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In this work we set out to find a method to classify protein structures using a Deep Learning methodology. Our Artificial Intelligence has been trained to recognize complex biomolecule structures extrapolated from the Protein Data Bank…

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The GOR program for predicting protein secondary structure is extended to include triple correlation. A score system for a residue pair to be at certain conformation state is derived from the conditional weight matrix describing amino acid…

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The protein folding problem has been fundamentally transformed by artificial intelligence, evolving from static structure prediction toward the modeling of dynamic conformational ensembles and complex biomolecular interactions. This review…

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This chapter gives a graceful introduction to problem of protein three- dimensional structure prediction, and focuses on how to make structural sense out of a single input sequence with unknown structure, the 'query' or 'target' sequence.…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2017-12-04 Sanne Abeln , Jaap Heringa , K. Anton Feenstra

How proteins fold remains a central unsolved problem in biology. While the idea of a folding code embedded in the amino acid sequence was introduced more than 6 decades ago, this code remains undefined. While we now have powerful predictive…

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Among an infinite number of possible folds, nature has chosen only about 1000 distinct folds to form protein structures. Theoretical studies suggest that selected folds are intrinsically more designable than others; these selected folds are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Cristiano L. Dias , Martin Grant

Developing accurate and efficient coarse-grained representations of proteins is crucial for understanding their folding, function, and interactions over extended timescales. Our methodology involves simulating proteins with molecular…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-11 Carles Navarro , Maciej Majewski , Gianni de Fabritiis

AlphaFold 3 represents a transformative advancement in computational biology, enhancing protein structure prediction through novel multi-scale transformer architectures, biologically informed cross-attention mechanisms, and geometry-aware…

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