Protein structure prediction from sequence variation

DS Marks, TA Hopf, C Sander - Nature biotechnology, 2012 - nature.com
Genomic sequences contain rich evolutionary information about functional constraints on
macromolecules such as proteins. This information can be efficiently mined to detect …

Ab initio protein structure assembly using continuous structure fragments and optimized knowledge‐based force field

D Xu, Y Zhang - Proteins: Structure, Function, and …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Ab initio protein folding is one of the major unsolved problems in computational biology
owing to the difficulties in force field design and conformational search. We developed a …

Bioinformatics and variability in drug response: a protein structural perspective

JL Lahti, GW Tang, E Capriotti… - Journal of The …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Marketed drugs frequently perform worse in clinical practice than in the clinical trials on
which their approval is based. Many therapeutic compounds are ineffective for a large …

Role of the biomolecular energy gap in protein design, structure, and evolution

SJ Fleishman, D Baker - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
The folding of natural biopolymers into unique three-dimensional structures that determine
their function is remarkable considering the vast number of alternative states and requires a …

Effective inter-residue contact definitions for accurate protein fold recognition

C Yuan, H Chen, D Kihara - BMC bioinformatics, 2012 - Springer
Background Effective encoding of residue contact information is crucial for protein structure
prediction since it has a unique role to capture long-range residue interactions compared to …

MESSA: MEta-server for protein sequence analysis

Q Cong, NV Grishin - BMC biology, 2012 - Springer
Background Computational sequence analysis, that is, prediction of local sequence
properties, homologs, spatial structure and function from the sequence of a protein, offers an …

The MULTICOM toolbox for protein structure prediction

J Cheng, J Li, Z Wang, J Eickholt, X Deng - BMC bioinformatics, 2012 - Springer
Background As genome sequencing is becoming routine in biomedical research, the total
number of protein sequences is increasing exponentially, recently reaching over 108 million …

Principles, challenges and advances in ab initio protein structure prediction

A Jothi - Protein and peptide letters, 2012 - ingentaconnect.com
The gap between known protein sequences and structures is increasing rapidly and
experimental methods alone will not be able to fill in this gap. Therefore it is necessary to …

Biased decoy sampling to aid the selection of near-native protein conformations

K Molloy, A Shehu - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
A central challenge in ab-initio protein structure prediction is the selection of low-resolution
decoy conformations whose subsequent refinement leads to high-resolution near-native …

A filtering technique for fragment assembly-based proteins loop modeling with constraints

F Campeotto, A Dal Palù, A Dovier, F Fioretto… - … on Principles and …, 2012 - Springer
Methods to predict the structure of a protein often rely on the knowledge of macro sub-
structures and their exact or approximated relative positions in space. The parts connecting …