The construction of an amino acid network for understanding protein structure and function

W Yan, J Zhou, M Sun, J Chen, G Hu, B Shen - Amino acids, 2014 - Springer
Amino acid networks (AANs) are undirected networks consisting of amino acid residues and
their interactions in three-dimensional protein structures. The analysis of AANs provides …

Soft computing methods for the prediction of protein tertiary structures: A survey

AE Márquez-Chamorro, G Asencio-Cortés… - Applied Soft …, 2015 - Elsevier
The problem of protein structure prediction (PSP) represents one of the most important
challenges in computational biology. Determining the three dimensional structure of proteins …

Residue interaction network analysis of Dronpa and a DNA clamp

G Hu, W Yan, J Zhou, B Shen - Journal of theoretical biology, 2014 - Elsevier
Topology is an essential aspect of protein structure. The network paradigm is increasingly
used to describe the topology and dynamics of proteins. In this paper, the effect of topology …

Node-weighted amino acid network strategy for characterization and identification of protein functional residues

W Yan, G Hu, Z Liang, J Zhou, Y Yang… - Journal of chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The study of functional residues (FRs) is essential for understanding protein functions and
biological processes. The amino acid network (AAN) has become an emerging paradigm for …

[HTML][HTML] Protein structure quality assessment based on the distance profiles of consecutive backbone cα atoms

S Chakraborty, R Venkatramani, BJ Rao… - …, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Predicting the three dimensional native state structure of a protein from its primary sequence
is an unsolved grand challenge in molecular biology. Two main computational approaches …

ANCA: A web server for amino acid networks construction and analysis

W Yan, C Yu, J Chen, J Zhou, B Shen - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Amino acid network (AAN) models empower us to gain insights into protein structures and
functions by describing a protein 3D structure as a graph, where nodes represent residues …

Amino acid contact energy networks impact protein structure and evolution

W Yan, M Sun, G Hu, J Zhou, W Zhang, J Chen… - Journal of theoretical …, 2014 - Elsevier
One of the most challenging tasks in structural proteomics is to understand the relationship
between protein structure, biological function, and evolution. An understanding of amino …

Enhancing protein fold determination by exploring the complementary information of chemical cross-linking and coevolutionary signals

RN Dos Santos, AJR Ferrari, HCR De Jesus… - …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Elucidation of protein native states from amino acid sequences is a primary
computational challenge. Modern computational and experimental methodologies, such as …

Amino acid network for prediction of catalytic residues in enzymes: a comparison survey

J Zhou, W Yan, G Hu, B Shen - Current Protein and Peptide …, 2016 - ingentaconnect.com
Catalytic residues play a significant role in enzyme functions. With the recent accumulation
of experimentally determined enzyme 3D structures and network theory on protein …

An information gain-based approach for evaluating protein structure models

G Postic, N Janel, P Tufféry, G Moroy - Computational and structural …, 2020 - Elsevier
For three decades now, knowledge-based scoring functions that operate through the
“potential of mean force”(PMF) approach have continuously proven useful for studying …