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Protein structures are important for understanding their functions and interactions. Currently, many protein structure prediction methods are enriching the structure database. Discriminating the origin of structures is crucial for…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-24 Wenrui Gou , Wenhui Ge , Yang Tan , Mingchen Li , Guisheng Fan , Huiqun Yu

Designing protein sequences that fold into a target 3-D structure, termed as the inverse folding problem, is central to protein engineering. However, it remains challenging due to the vast sequence space and the importance of local…

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In this PhD thesis, a novel method to determine protein structures using chemical shifts is presented.

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-05-15 Anders S. Christensen

Determining the 3D structures of proteins is essential in understanding their behavior in the cellular environment. Computational methods of predicting protein structures have advanced, but assessing prediction accuracy remains a challenge.…

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Describing the proton structure function $F_2$ in the non-perturbative and transition regimes of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) remains a significant theoretical challenge. In this work, we introduce a Physics-Guided Neural Network (PGNN)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-06 Wei Kou , Xurong Chen

Recently developed deep learning techniques have significantly improved the accuracy of various speech and image recognition systems. In this paper we adapt some of these techniques for protein secondary structure prediction. We first train…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-07 Akosua Busia , Jasmine Collins , Navdeep Jaitly

A new method for the Automated Protein Structure Analysis (APSA) is derived, which simplifies the protein backbone to a smooth curve in 3-dimensional space. For the purpose of obtaining this smooth line each amino acid is represented by its…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2008-11-24 Sushilee Raganathan , Dmitry Izotov , Elfi Kraka , Dieter Cremer

Changes in the extent of local concavity along with changes in surface roughness of binding sites of proteins have long been considered as useful markers to identify functional sites of proteins. However, an algorithm that describes the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2011-11-29 Anirban Banerji

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…

The Gene or DNA sequence in every cell does not control genetic properties on its own; Rather, this is done through translation of DNA into protein and subsequent formation of a certain 3D structure. The biological function of a protein is…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Leila Khalatbari , Mohammad Reza Kangavari , Saeid Hosseini , Hongzhi Yin , Ngai-Man Cheung

The interaction of a protein with its environment can be understood and controlled via its 3D structure. Experimental methods for protein structure determination, such as X-ray crystallography or cryogenic electron microscopy, shed light on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Axel Levy , Eric R. Chan , Sara Fridovich-Keil , Frédéric Poitevin , Ellen D. Zhong , Gordon Wetzstein

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

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

We present a geometrical analysis of the protrusion statistics of side chains in more than 4,000 high-resolution protein structures. We employ a coarse-grained representation of the protein backbone viewed as a linear chain of C{\alpha}…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-01-29 Tatjana Škrbić , Achille Giacometti , Trinh X. Hoang , Amos Maritan , Jayanth R. Banavar

Quantifying the effects of amino acid mutations in proteins presents a significant challenge due to the vast combinations of residue sites and amino acid types, making experimental approaches costly and time-consuming. The Potts model has…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-05-22 Bingying Dai , Yinan Lin , Kejue Jia , Zhao Ren , Wen Zhou

Proteins are miniature machines whose function depends on their three-dimensional (3D) structure. Determining this structure computationally remains an unsolved grand challenge. A major bottleneck involves selecting the most accurate…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-11-30 Stephan Eismann , Patricia Suriana , Bowen Jing , Raphael J. L. Townshend , Ron O. Dror

The protein backbone is described as a smooth curved and twisted line in three-dimensional (3D) space and characterized by its curvature $\kappa(s)$ and torsion $\tau(s)$ both expressed as a function of arc length s. It is shown that the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2008-11-24 Sushilee Ranganathan , Dmitry Izotov , Elfi Kraka , Dieter Cremer

The Automated Protein Structure Analysis (APSA) method, which describes the protein backbone as a smooth line in 3-dimensional space and characterizes it by curvature kappa and torsion tau as a function of arc length s, was applied on 77…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2008-11-24 S. Ranganathan , D. Izotov , E. Kraka , D. Cremer

This review is a tutorial for scientists interested in the problem of protein structure prediction, particularly those interested in using coarse-grained molecular dynamics models that are optimized using lessons learned from the energy…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2014-01-06 N. P. Schafer , B. L. Kim , W. Zheng , P. G. Wolynes

We describe a combination of all-atom simulations with CABS, a well-established coarse-grained protein modeling tool, into a single multiscale protocol. The simulation method has been tested on the C-terminal beta hairpin of protein G, a…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-08-13 Jacek Wabik , Sebastian Kmiecik , Dominik Gront , Maksim Kouza , Andrzej Kolinski