
Carsten Peterson
Expert

Matching protein structures with fuzzy alignments
Författare
Summary, in English
Unraveling functional and ancestral relationships between proteins as well as structure-prediction procedures require powerful protein-alignment methods. A structure-alignment method is presented where the problem is mapped onto a cost function containing both fuzzy (Potts) assignment variables and atomic coordinates. The cost function is minimized by using an iterative scheme, where at each step mean field theory methods at finite "temperatures" are used for determining fuzzy assignment variables followed by exact translation and rotation of atomic coordinates weighted by their corresponding fuzzy assignment variables. The approach performs very well when compared with other methods, requires modest central processing unit consumption, and is robust with respect to choice of iteration parameters for a wide range of proteins.
Avdelning/ar
- Computational Biology and Biological Physics - Undergoing reorganization
Publiceringsår
2003-10-14
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
11936-11940
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Volym
100
Issue
21
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
National Academy of Sciences
Ämne
- Biophysics
Nyckelord
- algorithm
- mean field annealing
- fuzzy assignment
- dynamical programming
Aktiv
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1091-6490