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Proteins are the basic building blocks of life. They usually perform functions by folding to a particular structure. Understanding the folding process could help the researchers to understand the functions of proteins and could also help to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-10-21 Jianzhu Ma

Predicting protein structure from amino acid sequence is one of the most important unsolved problems of molecular biology and biophysics.Not only would a successful prediction algorithm be a tremendous advance in the understanding of the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2010-06-15 K. K Senapati , G. Sahoo , D. Bhaumik

Enzymes and proteins are live driven biochemicals, which has a dramatic impact over the environment, in which it is active. So, therefore, it is highly looked-for to build such a robust and highly accurate automatic and computational model…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-01-11 Zaheer Ullah Khan , Dechang Pi , Izhar Ahmed Khan , Asif Nawaz , Jamil Ahmad , Mushtaq Hussain

Protein sequence design must balance designability, defined as the ability to recover a target backbone, with multiple, often competing, developability properties such as solubility, thermostability, and expression. Existing approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Xiaoyang Hou , Junqi Liu , Chence Shi , Xin Liu , Zhi Yang , Jian Tang

Protein structural classification (PSC) is a supervised problem of assigning proteins into pre-defined structural (e.g., CATH or SCOPe) classes based on the proteins' sequence or 3D structural features. We recently proposed PSC approaches…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2021-05-18 Khalique Newaz , Jacob Piland , Patricia L. Clark , Scott J. Emrich , Jun Li , Tijana Milenkovic

Deep neural networks such as AlphaFold and RoseTTAFold predict remarkably accurate structures of proteins compared to other algorithmic approaches. It is known that biologically small perturbations in the protein sequence do not lead to…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-09-21 Sumit Kumar Jha , Arvind Ramanathan , Rickard Ewetz , Alvaro Velasquez , Susmit Jha

We study pattern matching problems on two major representations of uncertain sequences used in molecular biology: weighted sequences (also known as position weight matrices, PWM) and profiles (i.e., scoring matrices). In the simple version,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Tomasz Kociumaka , Solon P. Pissis , Jakub Radoszewski

In this study, we present a method of pattern mining based on network theory that enables the identification of protein structures or complexes from synthetic volume densities, without the knowledge of predefined templates or human biases…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-18 August George , Doo Nam Kim , Trevor Moser , Ian T. Gildea , James E. Evans , Margaret S. Cheung

Predicting protein secondary structure using lattice model is one of the most studied computational problem in bioinformatics. Here secondary structure or three dimensional structure of protein is predicted from its amino acid sequence.…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2014-07-18 Dipan Lal Shaw , M. Sohel Rahman , A. S. M. Sohidull Islam , Shuvasish Karmaker

The capability of accurate prediction of protein functions and properties is essential in the biotechnology industry, e.g. drug development and artificial protein synthesis, etc. The main challenges of protein function prediction are the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-12-02 Wei-Cheng Tseng , Po-Han Chi , Jia-Hua Wu , Min Sun

This paper builds upon the fundamental work of Niwa et al. [34], which provides the unique possibility to analyze the relative aggregation/folding propensity of the elements of the entire Escherichia coli (E. coli) proteome in a cell-free…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-07-22 Lorenzo Livi , Alessandro Giuliani , Antonello Rizzi

Protein folding is one of the age-old biological problems that refers to the mechanism of understanding and predicting how a protein's linear sequence of amino acids folds into its specific three dimensional structure.This structure is…

Lattice models, for their coarse-grained nature, are best suited for the study of the ``designability problem'', the phenomenon in which most of the about 16,000 proteins of known structure have their native conformations concentrated in a…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. T. Shih , Z. Y. Su , J. F. Gwan , B. L. Hao , C. H. Hsieh , J. L. Lo. , H. C. Lee

We present a computational scheme for predicting the ligands that bind to a pocket of known structure. It is based on the generation of a general abstract representation of the molecules, which is invariant to rotations, translations and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-05-09 R. Beccaria , A. Lazzeri , G. Tiana

Systematic identification of protein function is a key problem in current biology. Most traditional methods fail to identify functionally equivalent proteins if they lack similar sequences, structural data or extensive manual annotations.…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2016-03-08 Dan Ofer

In protein secondary structure prediction, each amino acid in sequence is typically treated as a distinct category and represented by a one-hot vector. In this study, we developed two novel chemical representations for amino acids utilizing…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-09 Hoa Trinh , Satish Kumar Thittamaranahalli

Predicting the binding affinity of protein protein complexes directly from sequence remains a challenging problem, particularly in the absence of reliable structural information. Here I present ProtT Affinity, a sequence only model that…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-21 Hongfu Lou

Protein structure tokenization converts 3D structures into discrete or vectorized representations, enabling the integration of structural and sequence data. Despite many recent works on structure tokenization, the properties of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Zijing Liu , Bin Feng , He Cao , Yu Li

The remarkable structural diversity of modern proteins reflects millions of years of evolution, during which sequence space has expanded while many structural features remain conserved. This conservation is evident not only among homologous…

Protein language models (pLMs) pre-trained on vast protein sequence databases excel at various downstream tasks but often lack the structural knowledge essential for some biological applications. To address this, we introduce a method to…