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We solve a model that takes into account entropic barriers, frustration, and the organization of a protein-like molecule. For a chain of size $M$, there is an effective folding transition to an ordered structure. Without frustration, this…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Carlos J. Camacho

Modeling the interaction between proteins and ligands and accurately predicting their binding structures is a critical yet challenging task in drug discovery. Recent advancements in deep learning have shown promise in addressing this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Qizhi Pei , Kaiyuan Gao , Lijun Wu , Jinhua Zhu , Yingce Xia , Shufang Xie , Tao Qin , Kun He , Tie-Yan Liu , Rui Yan

Motivation: RNA design aims to find RNA sequences that fold into a given target secondary structure, a problem also known as RNA inverse folding. However, not all target structures are designable. Recent advances in RNA designability have…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Tianshuo Zhou , David H. Mathews , Liang Huang

Ribonucleic Acid (RNA) can fold into shapes that perform functions in the cell. These foldings are governed by Watson-Crick base pairing, namely Adenine to Uracil and Cytosine to Guanine (A-U and G-C). The properties of the H-P…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-18 Ben Y. Maron

Deep unrolling, or unfolding, is an emerging learning-to-optimize method that unrolls a truncated iterative algorithm in the layers of a trainable neural network. However, the convergence guarantees and generalizability of the unrolled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Samar Hadou , Navid NaderiAlizadeh , Alejandro Ribeiro

Protein structure prediction often hinges on multiple sequence alignments (MSAs), which underperform on low-homology and orphan proteins. We introduce PLAME, a lightweight MSA design framework that leverages evolutionary embeddings from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Hanqun Cao , Xinyi Zhou , Zijun Gao , Chenyu Wang , Xin Gao , Zhi Zhang , Cesar de la Fuente-Nunez , Chunbin Gu , Ge Liu , Pheng-Ann Heng

We review the recent progress in computational approaches to protein design which builds on advances in statistical-mechanical protein folding theory. In particular, we evaluate the degeneracy of the protein code (i.e. how many sequences…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 E. I. Shakhnovich

The folding vs. adsorption behaviour of a coarse-grained off-lattice protein model near an attractive surface is presented within the frame of a Multicanonical Monte Carlo simulations. In the polymer-surface model, the Lennard-Jones…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-12-23 Handan Arkin , Hakan Alaboz

We present a panoramic view of the utility of coarse-grained (CG) models to study folding and functions of proteins and RNA. Drawing largely on the methods developed in our group over the last twenty years, we describe a number of key…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2008-08-25 D. L. Pincus , S. S. Cho , C. Hyeon , D. Thirumalai

A comparative classification scheme provides a good basis for several approaches to understand proteins, including prediction of relations between their structure and biological function. But it remains a challenge to combine a…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2015-05-20 Shuangwei Hu , Andrei Krokhotin , Antti J. Niemi , Xubiao Peng

While all the information required for the folding of a protein is contained in its amino acid sequence, one has not yet learnt how to extract this information so as to predict the detailed, biological active, three-dimensional structure of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 R. A. Broglia , G. Tiana

The energy landscapes of proteins have evolved to be different from most random heteropolymers. Many studies have concluded that evolutionary selection for rapid and reliable folding to a given structure that is stable at biological…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Steven S. Plotkin , Peter G. Wolynes

Long chains of the HP lattice protein model are studied by the Multi-Self-Overlap Ensemble(MSOE) Monte Carlo method, which was developed recently by the authors. MSOE successfully finds the lowest energy states reported before for sequences…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 George Chikenji , Macoto Kikuchi , Yukito Iba

Protein collapse can be viewed as a dynamical phase transition, during which new scales and collective variables become excited while the old ones recede and fade away. This causes formidable computational bottle-necks in approaches that…

Biological Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Andrey Krokhotin , Martin Lundgren , Antti J. Niemi

Machine learning methods are being actively considered as a new tool of describing many body physics. However, so far, their capabilities has been only demonstrated in previously studied models, such as e.g. Ising model. Here, we consider a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-12-20 Grigory Bednik

The precise sequence of aminoacids plays a central role in the tertiary structure of proteins and their functional properties. The Hydrophobic-Polar lattice models have provided valuable insights regarding the energy landscape. We…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2015-03-30 K. Silpaja Chandrasekar , M. V. Sangaranarayanan

The prediction of protein secondary and tertiary structures from the primary amino acid sequence is both an incredibly important and incredibly difficult problem. Accurate prediction of a protein's native structure can provide critical…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-07-14 Sean Mullane

The fold recognition methods are promissing tools for capturing the structure of a protein by its amino acid residues sequence but their use is still restricted by the needs of huge computational resources and suitable efficient algorithms…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2007-07-30 Rumen Andonov , Guillaume Collet , Jean-François Gibrat , Antoine Marin , Vincent Poirriez , Nikola Yanev

Lattice-skin structures composed of a thin-shell skin and a lattice infill are widespread in nature and large-scale engineering due to their efficiency and exceptional mechanical properties. Recent advances in additive manufacturing, or 3D…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-20 Xiao Xiao , Fehmi Cirak