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In the standard approach to lattice proteins the models based on nearest neighbor interaction are used. In this kind of models it is difficult to explain the existence of secondary structures --- special preferred conformations of protein…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-12-17 S. V. Kozyrev , I. V. Volovich

Protein structure prediction can be shown to be an NP-hard problem; the number of conformations grows exponentially with the number of residues. The native conformations of proteins occupy a very small subset of these, hence an exploratory,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Mehul M. Khimasia , Peter V. Coveney

Protein structures and functions are determined by a contiguous arrangement of amino acid sequences. Designing novel protein sequences and structures with desired geometry and functions is a complex task with large state spaces. Here we…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-09-01 Xeerak Agha , Nihang Fu , Jianjun Hu

Predicting protein 3D structure from amino acid sequence remains as a challenge in the field of computational biology. If protein structure homologues are not found, one has to construct 3D structural conformations from the very beginning…

Biological Physics · Physics 2014-01-14 Chao Wang , Yi Wei , Juntao Liu , Haicang Zhang , Bin Ling , Shuai Cheng Li , Wei-Mou Zheng , Dongbo Bu

With the help of lattice Monte Carlo modelling of heteropolymers, we show that the necessary condition for a protein to fold on short call is to proceed through partially folded intermediates. These elementary structures are formed at an…

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

Background: Many attempts have been made to resolve in time the folding of model proteins in computer simulations. Different computational approaches have emerged. Some of these approaches suffer from the insensitivity to the geometrical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nikolay V. Dokholyan , Sergey V. Buldyrev , H. Eugene Stanley , Eugene I. Shakhnovich

Monte Carlo simulations of a simple lattice model of protein folding show two distinct regimes depending on the chain length. The first regime well describes the folding of small protein sequences and its kinetic counterpart appears to be…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 P. F. N. Faisca , R. C. Ball

A transfer-matrix formalism is introduced to evaluate exactly the partition function of the Munoz-Eaton model, relating the folding kinetics of proteins of known structure to their thermodynamics and topology. This technique can be used for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Pierpaolo Bruscolini , Alessandro Pelizzola

The understanding, and even the description of protein folding is impeded by the complexity of the process. Much of this complexity can be described and understood by taking a statistical approach to the energetics of protein conformation,…

chem-ph · Physics 2008-02-03 J. D. Bryngelson , J. N. Onuchic , N. D. Socci , P. G. Wolynes

Protein fitness optimization is challenged by a vast combinatorial landscape where high-fitness variants are extremely sparse. Many current methods either underperform or require computationally expensive gradient-based sampling. We present…

We introduce a new method for inverse design of nanophotonic devices which guarantees that resulting designs satisfy strict length scale constraints - including minimum width and spacing constraints required by commercial semiconductor…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Martin F. Schubert , Alfred K. C. Cheung , Ian A. D. Williamson , Aleksandra Spyra , David H. Alexander

A popular approach to protein design is to combine a generative model with a discriminative model for conditional sampling. The generative model samples plausible sequences while the discriminative model guides a search for sequences with…

We present InvMSAFold, an inverse folding method for generating protein sequences that is optimized for diversity and speed. For a given structure, InvMSAFold generates the parameters of a probability distribution over the space of…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-30 Luca Alessandro Silva , Barthelemy Meynard-Piganeau , Carlo Lucibello , Christoph Feinauer

Machine learning-based compact models provide a rapid and efficient approach for estimating device behavior across multiple input parameter variations. In this study, we introduce two reverse-design algorithms that utilize these compact…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Diego Ferrer , Jack Hutchins , Revanth Koduru , Sumeet Kumar Gupta , Admedullah Aziz

Protein structure prediction based on Hydrophobic-Polar energy model essentially becomes searching for a conformation having a compact hydrophobic core at the center. The hydrophobic core minimizes the interaction energy between the amino…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2013-11-01 Swakkhar Shatabda , M. A. Hakim Newton , Duc Nghia Pham , Abdul Sattar

Computational protein design has a wide variety of applications. Despite its remarkable success, designing a protein for a given structure and function is still a challenging task. On the other hand, the number of solved protein structures…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-04-26 Jingxue Wang , Huali Cao , John Z. H. Zhang , Yifei Qi

One of the main concerns of Anfinsen was to reveal the connection between the amino acid sequence and their biologically active conformation. This search gave rise to two crucial questions in structural biology, namely, why the proteins…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-12 Jorge A. Vila

Engineering new molecules with desirable functions and properties has the potential to extend our ability to engineer proteins beyond what nature has so far evolved. Advances in the so-called "de novo" design problem have recently been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Adam Winnifrith , Carlos Outeiral , Brian Hie

Protein inverse folding-that is, predicting an amino acid sequence that will fold into the desired 3D structure-is an important problem for structure-based protein design. Machine learning based methods for inverse folding typically use…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Yasha Ektefaie , Olivia Viessmann , Siddharth Narayanan , Drew Dresser , J. Mark Kim , Armen Mkrtchyan

Optimal structure of proteins is described by linear stochastic differential equation with mean decrease of free energy and volatility. Structure determining strategy is given by a twin of stochastic variables for which empirical conditions…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Toshio Fukumi