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This paper deepens into the analysis of the protein secondary structure using Frenet frame to describe the curvature and torsion of the discrete curve formed by the protein $\alpha$-carbons. We show how a simple criterion based on the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-12-08 M. Prados , M. D. Hernández de la Torre , F. de Soto

In this paper we experiment with using neural network structures to predict a protein's secondary structure ({\alpha} helix positions) from only its primary structure (amino acid sequence). We implement a fully connected neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Sidharth Malhotra , Robin Walters

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

In protein structure analysis, the accurate characterization of secondary structure elements is crucial for understanding protein function and dynamics. This paper presents a software system designed for the comprehensive analysis of the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-04-05 Vedh Kannan

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

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

The Automated Protein Structure Analysis (APSA) method is used for the classification of supersecondary structures. Basis for the classification is the encoding of three-dimensional (3D) residue conformations into a 16-letter code (3D-1D…

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

Proteins are essential for life, and their structure determines their function. The protein secondary structure is formed by the folding of the protein primary structure, and the protein tertiary structure is formed by the bending and…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-11 Yanlin Zhou , Kai Tan , Xinyu Shen , Zheng He , Haotian Zheng

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

Predicting protein secondary structures such as alpha helices, beta sheets, and coils from amino acid sequences is essential for understanding protein function. This work presents a transformer-based model that applies attention mechanisms…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Manzi Kevin Maxime

Simple hidden Markov models are proposed for predicting secondary structure of a protein from its amino acid sequence. Since the length of protein conformation segments varies in a narrow range, we ignore the duration effect of length…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wei-Mou Zheng

In this study, we tackle the challenging task of predicting secondary structures from protein primary sequences, a pivotal initial stride towards predicting tertiary structures, while yielding crucial insights into protein activity,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Disha Varshney , Samarth Garg , Sarthak Tyagi , Deeksha Varshney , Nayan Deep , Asif Ekbal

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

We investigate the fine structure of the sp3 hybridized covalent bond geometry that governs the tetrahedral architecture around the central C$_\alpha$ carbon of a protein backbone, and for this we develop new visualization techniques to…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Martin Lundgren , Antti J. Niemi

A novel approach for structure alignment is presented, where the key ingredients are: (1) An error function formulation of the problem simultaneously in terms of binary (Potts) assignment variables and real-valued atomic coordinates. (2)…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Ohlsson , C. Peterson , M. Ringner , R. Blankenbecler

Proteins are the major building blocks of life, and actuators of almost all chemical and biophysical events in living organisms. Their native structures in turn enable their biological functions which have a fundamental role in drug design.…

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

The correct prediction of protein secondary structures is one of the key issues in predicting the correct protein folded shape, which is used for determining gene function. Existing methods make use of amino acids properties as indices to…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-05-01 Jian-Jun Shu , Kian-Yan Yong

Local protein structure analysis is informative to protein structure analysis and has been used successfully in protein structure prediction and others. Proteins have recurring structural features, such as helix caps and beta turns, which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-10-26 Naoto Morikawa

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
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