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BMCBI
2010
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13 years 5 months ago
A hybrid approach to protein folding problem integrating constraint programming with local search
Background: The protein folding problem remains one of the most challenging open problems in computational biology. Simplified models in terms of lattice structure and energy func...
Abu Zafer M. Dayem Ullah, Kathleen Steinhöfel
ARC
2007
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Multiple Sequence Alignment Using Reconfigurable Computing
The alignment of multiple protein (or DNA) sequences is a current problem in Bioinformatics. ClustalW is the most popular heuristic algorithm for multiple sequence alignment. Pairw...
Carlos R. Erig Lima, Heitor S. Lopes, Maiko R. Mor...
RECOMB
2006
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Simulating Protein Motions with Rigidity Analysis
Abstract. Protein motions, ranging from molecular flexibility to largescale conformational change, play an essential role in many biochemical processes. Despite the explosion in ou...
Shawna L. Thomas, Xinyu Tang, Lydia Tapia, Nancy M...
ARC
2009
Springer
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13 years 12 months ago
A Hardware Accelerated Simulation Environment for Spiking Neural Networks
Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) model the biological functions of the human brain enabling neuro/computer scientists to investigate how arrays of neurons can be used to solve comput...
Brendan P. Glackin, Jim Harkin, T. Martin McGinnit...
CONCURRENCY
2004
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13 years 4 months ago
Studying protein folding on the Grid: experiences using CHARMM on NPACI resources under Legion
-- One of the benefits of a computational grid is the ability to run high-performance applications over distributed resources simply and securely. We demonstrated this benefit with...
Anand Natrajan, Michael Crowley, Nancy Wilkins-Die...