Blind protein structure prediction using accelerated free-energy simulations.

Perez, Alberto; Morrone, Joseph A; Brini, Emiliano; MacCallum, Justin L; Dill, Ken A · Sci Adv · 2016

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

We report a key proof of principle of a new acceleration method [Modeling Employing Limited Data (MELD)] for predicting protein structures by molecular dynamics simulation. It shows that such Boltzmann-satisfying techniques are now sufficiently fast and accurate to predict native protein structures in a limited test within the Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction (CASP) community-wide blind competition.

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