Perspective: Coarse-grained models for biomolecular systems

WG Noid - The Journal of chemical physics, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
By focusing on essential features, while averaging over less important details, coarse-
grained (CG) models provide significant computational and conceptual advantages with …

Recent advances in computer-aided drug design

CM Song, SJ Lim, JC Tong - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Modern drug discovery is characterized by the production of vast quantities of compounds
and the need to examine these huge libraries in short periods of time. The need to store …

Accurate de novo prediction of protein contact map by ultra-deep learning model

S Wang, S Sun, Z Li, R Zhang, J Xu - PLoS computational biology, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Motivation Protein contacts contain key information for the understanding of protein structure
and function and thus, contact prediction from sequence is an important problem. Recently …

Does SARS-CoV-2 bind to human ACE2 more strongly than does SARS-CoV?

HL Nguyen, PD Lan, NQ Thai, DA Nissley… - The Journal of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic, which was first reported in December
2019 in Wuhan, China, was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization in …

Statistical potential for assessment and prediction of protein structures

M Shen, A Sali - Protein science, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Protein structures in the Protein Data Bank provide a wealth of data about the interactions
that determine the native states of proteins. Using the probability theory, we derive an atomic …

MetaPSICOV: combining coevolution methods for accurate prediction of contacts and long range hydrogen bonding in proteins

DT Jones, T Singh, T Kosciolek, S Tetchner - Bioinformatics, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: Recent developments of statistical techniques to infer direct evolutionary
couplings between residue pairs have rendered covariation-based contact prediction a …

Accurate prediction of protein contact maps by coupling residual two-dimensional bidirectional long short-term memory with convolutional neural networks

J Hanson, K Paliwal, T Litfin, Y Yang, Y Zhou - Bioinformatics, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Accurate prediction of a protein contact map depends greatly on capturing as
much contextual information as possible from surrounding residues for a target residue pair …

Current structure predictors are not learning the physics of protein folding

C Outeiral, DA Nissley, CM Deane - Bioinformatics, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Motivation. Predicting the native state of a protein has long been considered a gateway
problem for understanding protein folding. Recent advances in structural modeling driven by …

Molecular crowding enhances native state stability and refolding rates of globular proteins

MS Cheung, D Klimov, D Thirumalai - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2005 - pnas.org
The presence of macromolecules in cells geometrically restricts the available space for
poplypeptide chains. To study the effects of macromolecular crowding on folding …

Sequence effects on size, shape, and structural heterogeneity in intrinsically disordered proteins

U Baul, D Chakraborty, ML Mugnai… - The Journal of …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) lack well-defined three-dimensional structures, thus
challenging the archetypal notion of structure–function relationships. Determining the …