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Proteins are sequences of amino acids that serve as the basic building blocks of living organisms. Despite rapidly growing databases documenting structural and functional information for various protein sequences, our understanding of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-06 Weihang Dai

Many aspects of the study of protein folding and dynamics have been affected by the recent advances in machine learning. Methods for the prediction of protein structures from their sequences are now heavily based on machine learning tools.…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-11-25 Frank Noé , Gianni De Fabritiis , Cecilia Clementi

Understanding protein folding has been one of the great challenges in biochemistry and molecular biophysics. Over the past 50 years, many thermodynamic and kinetic studies have been performed addressing the stability of globular proteins.…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2014-04-01 Ernesto A. Roman , F. Luis Gonzalez Flecha

Natural protein sequences somehow encode the structural forms that these molecules adopt. Recent developments in structure-prediction are agnostic to the mechanisms by which proteins fold and represent them as static objects. However, the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-26 Ezequiel A. Galpern , Federico Caamaño , Diego U. Ferreiro

Protein structure prediction and folding are fundamental to understanding biology, with recent deep learning advances reshaping the field. Diffusion-based generative models have revolutionized protein design, enabling the creation of novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yogesh Verma , Markus Heinonen , Vikas Garg

The protein folding problem must ultimately be solved on all length scales from the atomic up through a hierarchy of complicated structures. By analyzing the stability of the folding process using physics and mathematics, this paper shows…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Walter Simmons , Joel L. Weiner

We present a novel statistical mechanics formalism for the theoretical description of the process of protein folding$\leftrightarrow$unfolding transition in water environment. The formalism is based on the construction of the partition…

Biological Physics · Physics 2010-05-20 A. V. Yakubovich , A. V. Solov'yov , W. Greiner

Protein structure prediction is a challenging and unsolved problem in computer science. Proteins are the sequence of amino acids connected together by single peptide bond. The combinations of the twenty primary amino acids are the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-10-12 Mahmood A. Rashid , Firas Khatib , Abdul Sattar

Characterizing structural and dynamic properties of proteins and large macromolecular assemblies is crucial to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying biological functions. In the field of Structural Biology, no single method…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-04 Samuel Hoff , Maximilian Zinke , Nadia Izadi-Pruneyre , Massimiliano Bonomi

Modeling and simulating the protein folding process overall remains a grand challenge in computational biology. We systematically investigate end-to-end quantum algorithms for simulating various protein dynamics with effects, such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Zhenning Liu , Xiantao Li , Chunhao Wang , Jin-Peng Liu

Deep learning is catalyzing a scientific revolution fueled by big data, accessible toolkits, and powerful computational resources, impacting many fields including protein structural modeling. Protein structural modeling, such as predicting…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-07-17 Wenhao Gao , Sai Pooja Mahajan , Jeremias Sulam , Jeffrey J. Gray

How proteins fold remains a central unsolved problem in biology. While the idea of a folding code embedded in the amino acid sequence was introduced more than 6 decades ago, this code remains undefined. While we now have powerful predictive…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-04 Carlos Bustamante , Christian Kaiser , Erik Lindahl , Robert Sosa , Giovanni Volpe

Exploring and understanding the protein-folding problem has been a long-standing challenge in molecular biology. Here, using molecular dynamics simulation, we reveal how parallel distributed adjacent planar peptide groups of unfolded…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2019-01-11 Xiaoliang Ma , Chengyu Hou , Liping Shi , Long Li , Jiacheng Li , Lin Ye , Lin Yang , Xiaodong He

Motivation: Protein folding is a dynamic process during which a protein's amino acid sequence undergoes a series of 3-dimensional (3D) conformational changes en route to reaching a native 3D structure; the resulting 3D structural…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-09 Aydin Wells , Khalique Newaz , Jennifer Morones , Jianlin Cheng , Tijana Milenković

These lectures will address two questions. Is there a simple variational principle underlying the existence of secondary motifs in the native state of proteins? Is there a general approach which can qualitatively capture the salient…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jay Banavar , Amos Maritan , Cristian Micheletti , Flavio Seno

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…

The thermodynamics of proteins indicate that folding/unfolding takes place either through stable intermediates or through a two-state process without intermediates. The rather short folding times of the two-state process indicate that…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Audun Bakk , Johan S. Hoye , Alex Hansen , Kim Sneppen , Mogens Hogh Jensen

Protein folding, peptide aggregation and crystallization, as well as adsorption of molecules on soft or solid substrates have an essential feature in common: In all these processes, structure formation is guided by a collective, cooperative…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-02-12 Michael Bachmann , Wolfhard Janke

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…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Chao Tang

Understanding how monomeric proteins fold under in vitro conditions is crucial to describing their functions in the cellular context. Significant advances both in theory and experiments have resulted in a conceptual framework for describing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-07-20 D. Thirumalai , Edward P. O'Brien , Greg Morrison , Changbong Hyeon