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Article: Researchers from University of Texas detail new studies and findings in the area of life sciences.
- Article from:
- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- October 14, 2009
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"One approach to predict a protein fold from a sequence (a target) is based on structures of related proteins that are used as templates. We present an algorithm that examines a set of candidates for templates, builds from each of the templates an atomically detailed model, and ranks the models," scientists writing in the journal Proteins - Structure Function and Bioinformatics report (see also Life Sciences).
"The algorithm performs a hierarchical selection of the best model using a diverse set of signals. After a quick and suboptimal screening of template candidates from the protein data bank, the current method fine-tunes the selection to a few models. More ...