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Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2015-05-27 Shuangwei Hu , Martin Lundgren , Antti J. Niemi

The paper presents a geometrical model for protein secondary structure analysis which uses only the positions of the $C_{\alpha}$-atoms. We construct a space curve connecting these positions by piecewise polynomial interpolation and…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2014-12-30 Gerald R. Kneller , Konrad Hinsen

Proteins are essential for life, and their structure determines their function. The protein secondary structure is formed by the folding of the protein primary structure, and the protein tertiary structure is formed by the bending and…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-11 Yanlin Zhou , Kai Tan , Xinyu Shen , Zheng He , Haotian Zheng

This paper proposes a new mathematical framework that can be applied to biological problems such as analysis of the structures of proteins and protein complexes. In particular, it gives a new method for encoding the three-dimensional…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Naoto Morikawa

The Automated Protein Structure Analysis (APSA) method, which describes the protein backbone as a smooth line in 3-dimensional space and characterizes it by curvature kappa and torsion tau as a function of arc length s, was applied on 77…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2008-11-24 S. Ranganathan , D. Izotov , E. Kraka , D. Cremer

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Sidharth Malhotra , Robin Walters

Local protein structure analysis is informative to protein structure analysis and has been used successfully in protein structure prediction and others. Proteins have recurring structural features, such as helix caps and beta turns, which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-10-26 Naoto Morikawa

Many types of peripheral and transmembrane proteins can sense and generate membrane curvature. Laterally isotropic proteins and crescent proteins with twofold rotational symmetry, such as Bin/Amphiphysin/Rvs superfamily proteins, have been…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-12 Hiroshi Noguchi

Protein molecules can be approximated by discrete polygonal chains of amino acids. Standard topological tools can be applied to the smoothening of the polygons to introduce a topological classification of proteins, for example, using the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2019-03-12 Dmitry Melnikov , Antti J Niemi , Ara Sedrakyan

Proteins contain a large fraction of regular, repeating conformations, called secondary structure. A simple, generic definition of secondary structure is presented which consists of measuring local correlations along the protein chain.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Nicholas D. Socci , William S. Bialek , Jose' Nelson Onuchic

This paper proposes a new mathematical approach to characterize native protein structures based on the discrete differential geometry of tetrahedron tiles. In the approach, local structure of proteins is classified into finite types…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Naoto Morikawa

The intricate three-dimensional geometries of protein tertiary structures underlie protein function and emerge through a folding process from one-dimensional chains of amino acids. The exact spatial sequence and configuration of amino…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-02-24 Nora Molkenthin , Steffen Mühle , Antonia S J S Mey , Marc Timme

We present a model, based on symmetry and geometry, for proteins. Using elementary ideas from mathematics and physics, we derive the geometries of discrete helices and sheets. We postulate a compatible solvent-mediated emergent pairwise…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-06-21 Jayanth R. Banavar , Achille Giacometti , Trinh X. Hoang , Amos Maritan , Tatjana Škrbić

Predicting protein structure from amino acid sequence is one of the most important unsolved problems of molecular biology and biophysics.Not only would a successful prediction algorithm be a tremendous advance in the understanding of the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2010-06-15 K. K Senapati , G. Sahoo , D. Bhaumik

In nature the three-dimensional structure of a protein is encoded in the corresponding gene. In this paper we describe a new method for encoding the three-dimensional structure of a protein into a binary sequence. The feature of the method…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Naoto Morikawa

Protein structure is generally conceptualized as the global arrangement or of smaller, local motifs of helices, sheets, and loops. These regular, recurring secondary structural elements have well-understood and standardized definitions in…

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

The correct prediction of protein secondary structures is one of the key issues in predicting the correct protein folded shape, which is used for determining gene function. Existing methods make use of amino acids properties as indices to…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-05-01 Jian-Jun Shu , Kian-Yan Yong

Predicting protein secondary structures such as alpha helices, beta sheets, and coils from amino acid sequences is essential for understanding protein function. This work presents a transformer-based model that applies attention mechanisms…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Manzi Kevin Maxime

The idea of this project is to study the protein structure and sequence relationship using the hidden markov model and artificial neural network. In this context we have assumed two hidden markov models. In first model we have taken protein…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-18 Saurabh Sarkar , Prateek Malhotra , Virender Guman

A new method for the Automated Protein Structure Analysis (APSA) is derived, which simplifies the protein backbone to a smooth curve in 3-dimensional space. For the purpose of obtaining this smooth line each amino acid is represented by its…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2008-11-24 Sushilee Raganathan , Dmitry Izotov , Elfi Kraka , Dieter Cremer
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