Related papers: Protein Structure Prediction until CASP15
Despite many advances in computational modeling of protein structures, these methods have not been widely utilized by experimental structural biologists. Two major obstacles are preventing the transition from a purely-experimental to a…
Generative modeling has become a central paradigm in protein research, extending machine learning beyond structure prediction toward sequence design, backbone generation, inverse folding, and biomolecular interaction modeling. However, the…
Protein structure prediction remains to be an open problem in bioinformatics. There are two main categories of methods for protein structure prediction: Free Modeling (FM) and Template Based Modeling (TBM). Protein threading, belonging to…
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…
A protein's function depends critically on its conformational ensemble, a collection of energy weighted structures whose balance depends on temperature and environment. Though recent deep learning (DL) methods have substantially advanced…
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…
Protein structure prediction remains a challenge in the field of computational biology. Traditional protein structure prediction approaches include template-based modelling (say, homology modelling, and threading), and ab initio. A…
The ability to computationally generate novel yet physically foldable protein structures could lead to new biological discoveries and new treatments targeting yet incurable diseases. Despite recent advances in protein structure prediction,…
We present the assembly category assessment in the 13th edition of the CASP community-wide experiment. For the second time, protein assemblies constitute an independent assessment category. Compared to the last edition we see a clear uptake…
Computational methods for predicting and designing biomolecular structures are increasingly powerful. While previous approaches relied on physics-based modeling, modern tools, such as AlphaFold2 in CASP14, leverage artificial intelligence…
Computational prediction of stable crystal structures has a profound impact on the large-scale discovery of novel functional materials. However, predicting the crystal structure solely from a material's composition or formula is a promising…
Predicting accurate protein-ligand binding affinity is important in drug discovery but remains a challenge even with computationally expensive biophysics-based energy scoring methods and state-of-the-art deep learning approaches. Despite…
The design of novel protein sequences with targeted functionalities underpins a central theme in protein engineering, impacting diverse fields such as drug discovery and enzymatic engineering. However, navigating this vast combinatorial…
Despite continuing hype about the role of AI in drug discovery, no "AI-discovered drugs" have so far received regulatory approval. Here we assess one of the latest AI based tools in this domain. The ability to rapidly predict protein-ligand…
As protein folding is a NP-complete problem, artificial intelligence tools like neural networks and genetic algorithms are used to attempt to predict the 3D shape of an amino acids sequence. Underlying these attempts, it is supposed that…
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…
Protein quality assessment (QA) has played an important role in protein structure prediction. We developed a novel single-model quality assessment method - Qprob. Qprob calculates the absolute error for each protein feature value against…
The protein folding problem has attracted an increasing attention from physicists. The problem has a flavor of statistical mechanics, but possesses the most common feature of most biological problems -- the profound effects of evolution. I…
Proteins are essential for almost all biological processes and derive their diverse functions from complex 3D structures, which are in turn determined by their amino acid sequences. In this paper, we exploit the rich biological inductive…
Rapid progress in deep learning has spurred its application to bioinformatics problems including protein structure prediction and design. In classic machine learning problems like computer vision, progress has been driven by standardized…