Protein loop structure modeling is regarded as a mini protein folding problem with significant scientific importance. Efficiently sampling the loop conformation space is a key step...
Background: Empirical scoring functions have proven useful in protein structure modeling. Most such scoring functions depend on protein side chain conformations. However, backbone...
Background: Understanding how proteins fold is essential to our quest in discovering how life works at the molecular level. Current computation power enables researchers to produc...
Hong Sun, Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu, Motonori Ota, Yus...
Background: Many biological processes involve the physical interaction between protein domains. Understanding these functional associations requires knowledge of the molecular str...
Background: Structure prediction of membrane proteins is still a challenging computational problem. Hidden Markov models (HMM) have been successfully applied to the problem of pre...
Piero Fariselli, Pier Luigi Martelli, Rita Casadio