Title
A quasi-physical algorithm for the structure optimization in an off-lattice protein model.
Abstract
In this paper, we study an off-lattice protein AB model with two species of monomers, hydrophobic and hydrophilic, and present a heuristic quasi-physical algorithm. First, by elaborately simulating the movement of the smooth solids in the physical world, we find low-energy conformations for a given monomer chain. A subsequent off-trap strategy is then proposed to trigger a jump for a stuck situation in order to get out of the local minima. The algorithm has been tested in the three-dimensional AB model for all sequences with lengths of 13-55 monomers. In several cases, we renew the putative ground state energy values. The numerical results show that the proposed methods are very promising for finding the ground states of proteins.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1016/S1672-0229(06)60018-1
Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
protein folding,off-lattice model,quasi-physical algorithm,off-trap strategy
Heuristic,Protein folding,Ground state,Biology,Algorithm,Maxima and minima,Lattice protein,Jump,Monomer,Protein structure
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
4
1
1672-0229
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
2
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jingfa Liu19812.48
Wenqi Huang239924.25
wenqi300.34
huang400.68