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We propose and discuss a novel strategy for protein design. The method is based on recent theoretical advancements which showed the importance to treat carefully the conformational free energy of designed sequences. In this work we show how…
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…
Recent advancements in machine learning techniques for protein folding motivate better results in its inverse problem -- protein design. In this work we introduce a new graph mimetic neural network, MimNet, and show that it is possible to…
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.…
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…
We propose a new way of looking at global optimization of off-lattice protein models. We present a dual optimization concept of predicting optimal sequences as well as optimal folds. We validate the utility of the recently introduced…
This paper presents a method of reconstruction a primary structure of a protein that folds into a given geometrical shape. This method predicts the primary structure of a protein and restores its linear sequence of amino acids in the…
Protein design is the inverse approach of the three-dimensional (3D) structure prediction for elucidating the relationship between the 3D structures and amino acid sequences. In general, the computation of the protein design involves a…
Inverse protein folding -- the task of predicting a protein sequence from its backbone atom coordinates -- has surfaced as an important problem in the "top down", de novo design of proteins. Contemporary approaches have cast this problem as…
We discuss recent theoretical developments in the study of simple lattice models of proteins. Such models are designed to understand general features of protein structures and mechanism of folding. Among the topics covered are (i) the use…
In this paper we introduce a novel method of deriving a pairwise potential for protein folding. The potential is obtained by optimization procedure, which simultaneously maximizes the energy gap for {\it all} proteins in the database. To…
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…
We present a detailed study of the performance and reliability of design procedures based on energy minimization. The analysis is carried out for model proteins where exact results can be obtained through exhaustive enumeration. The…
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.…
Making use of a simplified model for protein folding, it can be shown that conformations which are particularly stable when their energy is minimized with respect to amino acid sequence (in the sense that they display a large energy gap to…
In this study, we propose an analytic statistical mechanics approach to solve a fundamental problem in biological physics called protein design. Protein design is an inverse problem of protein structure prediction, and its solution is the…
This paper presents a novel Differential Evolution algorithm for protein folding optimization that is applied to a three-dimensional AB off-lattice model. The proposed algorithm includes two new mechanisms. A local search is used to improve…
Protein folding and design are major biophysical problems, the solution of which would lead to important applications especially in medicine. Here a novel protein model capable of simultaneously provide quantitative protein design and…
Protein folds are highly designable, in the sense that many sequences fold to the same conformation. In the present work we derive an expression for the designability in a 20 letter lattice model of proteins which, relying only on the…
Generative machine learning models are increasingly being used to design novel proteins for therapeutic and biotechnological applications. However, the current methods mostly focus on the design of proteins with a fixed backbone structure,…