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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…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2015-11-03 Jacques M. Bahi , Nathalie M. -L. Cote , Christophe Guyeux

De novo protein structure prediction from amino acid sequence is one of the most challenging problems in computational biology. As one of the extensively explored mathematical models for protein folding, Hydrophobic-Polar (HP) model enables…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Yanjun Li , Hengtong Kang , Ketian Ye , Shuyu Yin , Xiaolin Li

A reduced model, which can fold both helix and sheet structures, is proposed to study the problem of protein folding. The goal of this model is to find an unbiased effective potential that has included the effects of water and at the same…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Nan-yow Chen

Optimization problems associated with the interaction of linked particles are at the heart of polymer science, protein folding and other important problems in the physical sciences. In this review we explain how to recast these problems as…

We study the thermodynamic behavior of a simple off-lattice model for protein folding. The model is two-dimensional and has two different ``amino acids''. Using numerical simulations of all chains containing eight or ten monomers, we…

chem-ph · Physics 2009-10-28 Anders Irbäck , Frank Potthast

Recent advances in coarse-grained lattice and off-lattice protein models are reviewed. The sequence dependence of thermodynamical folding properties are investigated and evidence for non-randomness of the binary sequences of good folders…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-25 C. Peterson

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

One of the most puzzling and unsolved challenges in molecular biology is understanding how proteins fold. Despite having advanced predictive tools that can accurately estimate the native structures of proteins, we still lack a comprehensive…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-13 Jorge Vila

We present and discuss a novel approach to the direct and inverse protein folding problem. The proposed strategy is based on a variational approach that allows the simultaneous extraction of amino acid interactions and the low-temperature…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Flavio Seno , Cristian Micheletti , Amos Maritan , Jayanth R. Banavar

We apply a new approach to the reverse protein folding problem. Our method uses a minimization function in the design process which is different from the energy function used for folding. For a lattice model, we show that this new approach…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 J. M. Deutsch , Tanya Kurosky

Proteins created by combinatorial methods in vitro are an important source of information for understanding sequence-structure-function relationships. Alignments of folded proteins from combinatorial libraries can be analyzed using methods…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Jeffrey B. Endelman , Jesse D. Bloom , Christopher R. Otey , Marco Landwehr , Frances H. Arnold

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

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…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-09 Myeongsang Lee , Lauren L. Porter

We address protein structure prediction in the 3D Hydrophobic-Polar lattice model through two novel deep learning architectures. For proteins under 36 residues, our hybrid reservoir-based model combines fixed random projections with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Giovanny Espitia , Yui Tik Pang , James C. Gumbart

The hydrophobic-polar (HP) model represents proteins as binary strings embedded in lattices, with fold quality measured by an energy score. We prove that the optimal fold energy is not monotonic under concatenation for several standard…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen

Proteins are traditionally optimized through the costly construction and measurement of many mutants. Active Learning-assisted Directed Evolution (ALDE) alleviates that cost by predicting the best improvements and iteratively testing…

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

Developing accurate and efficient coarse-grained representations of proteins is crucial for understanding their folding, function, and interactions over extended timescales. Our methodology involves simulating proteins with molecular…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-11 Carles Navarro , Maciej Majewski , Gianni de Fabritiis

Lattice models, for their coarse-grained nature, are best suited for the study of the ``designability problem'', the phenomenon in which most of the about 16,000 proteins of known structure have their native conformations concentrated in a…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. T. Shih , Z. Y. Su , J. F. Gwan , B. L. Hao , C. H. Hsieh , J. L. Lo. , H. C. Lee

Protein folding produces characteristic and functional three-dimensional structures from unfolded polypeptides or disordered coils. The emergence of extraordinary complexity in the protein folding process poses astonishing challenges to…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2013-08-14 Kelin Xia , Guo-Wei Wei