Andrzej Kolinski Research Group

Coarse-grained protein modeling

Modeling Software & Servers

Biomolecules — dynamics & interactions

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Protein structure prediction by tempering spatial constraints

Source:

Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design, 19:603–8, 2005

Abstract

The probability to predict correctly a protein structure can be enhanced through introduction of spatial constraints - either from NMR experiments or from homologous structures. However, the additional constraints lead often to new local energy minima and worse sampling efficiency in simulations. In this work, we present a new parallel tempering variant that alleviates the energy barriers resulting from spatial constraints and therefore yields to an enhanced sampling in structure prediction simulations.