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Background:Typically, proteins perform key biological functions by interacting with each other. As a consequence, predicting which protein pairs interact is a fundamental problem. Experimental methods are slow, expensive, and may be error…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-02-08 Leonardo Martini , Adriano Fazzone , Luca Becchetti

In this study, the distributions of protein structure classes (or folding types) of experimentally determined structures from a legacy dataset and a comprehensive database (SCOP) are modeled precisely with geometric constructs such as…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-21 Boryeu Mao

The idea of this project is to study the protein structure and sequence relationship using the hidden markov model and artificial neural network. In this context we have assumed two hidden markov models. In first model we have taken protein…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-18 Saurabh Sarkar , Prateek Malhotra , Virender Guman

Proteins are biomolecules of life. They fold into a great variety of three-dimensional (3D) shapes. Underlying these folding patterns are many recurrent structural fragments or building blocks (analogous to `LEGO bricks'). This paper…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2013-10-08 Arun S. Konagurthu , Arthur M. Lesk , David Abramson , Peter J. Stuckey , Lloyd Allison

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

Composed of amino acid chains that influence how they fold and thus dictating their function and features, proteins are a class of macromolecules that play a central role in major biological processes and are required for the structure,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-07-15 Aaron Wang

Proteins are macromolecules that mediate a significant fraction of the cellular processes that underlie life. An important task in bioengineering is designing proteins with specific 3D structures and chemical properties which enable…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-05-31 Namrata Anand , Tudor Achim

The structure of proteins is essential for its function. The determination of protein structures is possible by experimental or predicted by computational methods, but also a combination of both approaches is possible. Here, first an…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2020-03-03 Gerhard Mayer

Proteins are essential biological macromolecules that execute life functions. Local structural motifs, such as active sites, are the most critical components for linking structure to function and are key to understanding protein evolution…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-10 Zhiyu Wang , Bingxin Zhou , Jing Wang , Yang Tan , Weishu Zhao , Pietro Liò , Liang Hong

Protein representation learning plays a crucial role in understanding the structure and function of proteins, which are essential biomolecules involved in various biological processes. In recent years, deep learning has emerged as a…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-11 Bozhen Hu , Cheng Tan , Lirong Wu , Jiangbin Zheng , Jun Xia , Zhangyang Gao , Zicheng Liu , Fandi Wu , Guijun Zhang , Stan Z. Li

Accurately modeling and designing protein complex structures is a central problem in computational structural biology, with broad implications for understanding cellular function and developing therapeutics. This thesis investigates two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Ziwei Xie

Proteins are macromolecules that perform essential functions in all living organisms. Designing novel proteins with specific structures and desired functions has been a long-standing challenge in the field of bioengineering. Existing…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-03-03 Chence Shi , Chuanrui Wang , Jiarui Lu , Bozitao Zhong , Jian Tang

Proteins perform much of the work in living organisms, and consequently the development of efficient computational methods for protein representation is essential for advancing large-scale biological research. Most current approaches…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-06-09 Francesco Ceccarelli , Lorenzo Giusti , Sean B. Holden , Pietro Liò

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…

In this paper we report on an algorithm for aligning multiple protein structures. The algorithm has been tested on a variety of inputs and it performs well in comparison to well-known algorithms for this problem.

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2014-12-30 Kaushik Roy , Satish Ch. Panigrahi , Asish Mukhopadhyay

Algorithms that detect covariance between pairs of columns in multiple sequence alignments are commonly employed to predict functionally important residues and structural contacts. However, the assumption that co-variance only occurs…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2014-01-07 Kyle E. Kreth , Anthony A. Fodor

Alignments, i.e., position-wise comparisons of two or more strings or ordered lists are of utmost practical importance in computational biology and a host of other fields, including historical linguistics and emerging areas of research in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-19 Sarah J. Berkemer , Christian Höner zu Siederdissen , Peter F. Stadler

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

Despite the significant increase in computational power, molecular modeling of protein structure using classical all-atom approaches remains inefficient, at least for most of the protein targets in the focus of biomedical research. Perhaps…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2016-11-01 Sebastian Kmiecik , Andrzej Kolinski

Computational protein design facilitates discovery of novel proteins with prescribed structure and functionality. Exciting designs were recently reported using novel data-driven methodologies that can be roughly divided into two categories:…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-03-28 Cyril Malbranke , David Bikard , Simona Cocco , Rémi Monasson , Jérôme Tubiana