Toward the solution of the protein structure prediction problem

R Pearce, Y Zhang - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2021 - ASBMB
Since Anfinsen demonstrated that the information encoded in a protein's amino acid
sequence determines its structure in 1973, solving the protein structure prediction problem …

Principles and overview of sampling methods for modeling macromolecular structure and dynamics

T Maximova, R Moffatt, B Ma, R Nussinov… - PLoS computational …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Investigation of macromolecular structure and dynamics is fundamental to understanding
how macromolecules carry out their functions in the cell. Significant advances have been …

Deep‐learning contact‐map guided protein structure prediction in CASP13

W Zheng, Y Li, C Zhang, R Pearce… - Proteins: Structure …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We report the results of two fully automated structure prediction pipelines,“Zhang‐Server”
and “QUARK”, in CASP13. The pipelines were built upon the C‐I‐TASSER and C‐QUARK …

I-TASSER: a unified platform for automated protein structure and function prediction

A Roy, A Kucukural, Y Zhang - Nature protocols, 2010 - nature.com
The iterative threading assembly refinement (I-TASSER) server is an integrated platform for
automated protein structure and function prediction based on the sequence-to-structure-to …

I-TASSER server for protein 3D structure prediction

Y Zhang - BMC bioinformatics, 2008 - Springer
Background Prediction of 3-dimensional protein structures from amino acid sequences
represents one of the most important problems in computational structural biology. The …

LOMETS: a local meta-threading-server for protein structure prediction

S Wu, Y Zhang - Nucleic acids research, 2007 - academic.oup.com
We developed LOMETS, a local threading meta-server, for quick and automated predictions
of protein tertiary structures and spatial constraints. Nine state-of-the-art threading programs …

Three-dimensional protein structure prediction: Methods and computational strategies

M Dorn, MB e Silva, LS Buriol, LC Lamb - Computational biology and …, 2014 - Elsevier
A long standing problem in structural bioinformatics is to determine the three-dimensional (3-
D) structure of a protein when only a sequence of amino acid residues is given. Many …

Ab initio modeling of small proteins by iterative TASSER simulations

S Wu, J Skolnick, Y Zhang - BMC biology, 2007 - Springer
Background Predicting 3-dimensional protein structures from amino-acid sequences is an
important unsolved problem in computational structural biology. The problem becomes …

SPICKER: A clustering approach to identify near‐native protein folds

Y Zhang, J Skolnick - Journal of computational chemistry, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
We have developed SPICKER, a simple and efficient strategy to identify near‐native folds by
clustering protein structures generated during computer simulations. In general, the most …

Template‐based modeling and free modeling by I‐TASSER in CASP7

Y Zhang - Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
We developed and tested the I‐TASSER protein structure prediction algorithm in the CASP7
experiment, where targets are first threaded through the PDB library and continuous …