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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…

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The protein design problem involves finding polypeptide sequences folding into a given threedimensional structure. Its rigorous algorithmic solution is computationally demanding, involving a nested search in sequence and structure spaces.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-11 Veronica Panizza , Philipp Hauke , Cristian Micheletti , Pietro Faccioli

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

A generalized computational method for folding proteins with a fully transferable potential and geometrically realistic all-atom model is presented and tested on seven different helix bundle proteins. The protocol, which includes…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-11 Isaac A. Hubner , Eric J. Deeds , Eugene I. Shakhnovich

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

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

A reliable prediction of 3D protein structures from sequence data remains a big challenge due to both theoretical and computational difficulties. We have previously shown that our kinetostatic compliance method (KCM) implemented into the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Pouya Tavousi , Morad Behandish , Horea T. Ilies , Kazem Kazerounian

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

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

In the post-Moore era, the need for efficient solutions to non-deterministic polynomial-time (NP) problems is becoming more pressing. In this context, the Ising model implemented by the probabilistic computing systems with probabilistic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 Chao Fang , Yihan He , Xiao Gong , Gengchiau Liang

Novel sampling algorithms can significantly impact open questions in computational biology, most notably the in silico protein folding problem. By using computational methods, protein folding aims to find the three-dimensional structure of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Peter Minary , Michael Levitt

We develop a theoretical approach to the protein folding problem based on out-of-equilibrium stochastic dynamics. Within this framework, the computational difficulties related to the existence of large time scale gaps in the protein folding…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-13 M. Sega , P. Faccioli , F. Pederiva , G. Garberoglio , H. Orland

Lattice models have been used extensively over the past thirty years to examine the principles of protein folding and design. These models can be used to determine the conformation of the lowest energy fold out of a large number of possible…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-05 Tomáš Babej , Christopher Ing , Mark Fingerhuth

Folding and aggregation of proteins, the interaction between proteins and membranes, as well as the adsorption of organic soft matter to inorganic solid substrates belong to the most interesting challenges in understanding structure and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-12-06 Michael Bachmann , Wolfhard Janke

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 geometric analysis of protein folding, which complements many of the models in the literature, is presented. We examine the process from unfolded strand to the point where the strand becomes self-interacting. A central question is how it…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-09-13 Walter A. Simmons , Joel L. Weiner

Natural protein sequences that self-assemble to form globular structures are compact with high packing densities in the folded states. It is known that proteins unfold upon addition of denaturants, adopting random coil structures. The…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2016-12-02 Himadri S. Samanta , Pavel I. Zhuravlev , Michael Hinczewski , Naoto Hori , Shaon Chakrabarti , D. Thirumalai

We study the protein folding problem on the base of the quantum approach we proposed recently by considering the model of protein chain with nine amino-acid residues. We introduced the concept of distance space and its projections on a…

Biological Physics · Physics 2021-06-24 Wen-Wen Mao , Li-Hua Lu , Yong-Yun Ji , You-Quan Li

Predicting protein secondary structure using lattice model is one of the most studied computational problem in bioinformatics. Here secondary structure or three dimensional structure of protein is predicted from its amino acid sequence.…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2014-07-18 Dipan Lal Shaw , M. Sohel Rahman , A. S. M. Sohidull Islam , Shuvasish Karmaker

While all the information required for the folding of a protein is contained in its amino acid sequence, one has not yet learned how to extract this information to predict the three--dimensional, biologically active, native conformation of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-10 R. A. Broglia , G. Tiana