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    Curr Opin Struct Biol. 2008 Jun;18(3):342-8. Epub 2008 Apr 22.

    Progress and challenges in protein structure prediction.

    Zhang Y.

    Center for Bioinformatics and Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas, 2030 Becker Drive, Lawrence, KS 66047, United States. yzhang@ku.edu

    Depending on whether similar structures are found in the PDB library, the protein structure prediction can be categorized into template-based modeling and free modeling. Although threading is an efficient tool to detect the structural analogs, the advancements in methodology development have come to a steady state. Encouraging progress is observed in structure refinement which aims at drawing template structures closer to the native; this has been mainly driven by the use of multiple structure templates and the development of hybrid knowledge-based and physics-based force fields. For free modeling, exciting examples have been witnessed in folding small proteins to atomic resolutions. However, predicting structures for proteins larger than 150 residues still remains a challenge, with bottlenecks from both force field and conformational search.

    PMID: 18436442 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

    PMCID: 2680823

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