Structure-guided protein transition modeling with a probabilistic roadmap algorithm

T Maximova, E Plaku, A Shehu - IEEE/ACM transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Proteins are macromolecules in perpetual motion, switching between structural states to
modulate their function. A detailed characterization of the precise yet complex relationship …

Computing energy landscape maps and structural excursions of proteins

E Sapin, DB Carr, KA De Jong, A Shehu - BMC genomics, 2016 - Springer
Background Structural excursions of a protein at equilibrium are key to biomolecular
recognition and function modulation. Protein modeling research is driven by the need to aid …

Reducing ensembles of protein tertiary structures generated de novo via clustering

AB Zaman, P Kamranfar, C Domeniconi, A Shehu - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Controlling the quality of tertiary structures computed for a protein molecule remains a
central challenge in de-novo protein structure prediction. The rule of thumb is to generate as …

Sample-based models of protein energy landscapes and slow structural rearrangements

T Maximova, Z Zhang, DB Carr, E Plaku… - Journal of …, 2018 - liebertpub.com
Proteins often undergo slow structural rearrangements that involve several angstroms and
surpass the nanosecond timescale. These spatiotemporal scales challenge physics-based …

A survey of computational treatments of biomolecules by robotics-inspired methods modeling equilibrium structure and dynamic

A Shehu, E Plaku - Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2016 - jair.org
More than fifty years of research in molecular biology have demonstrated that the ability of
small and large molecules to interact with one another and propagate the cellular processes …

Sample-based models of protein structural transitions

T Maximova, D Carr, E Plaku, A Shehu - Proceedings of the 7th ACM …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Modeling structural transitions of a protein at equilibrium is central to understanding function
modulation but challenging due to the disparate spatio-temporal scales involved. Of …

Adaptive Stochastic Optimization to Improve Protein Conformation Sampling

AB Zaman, TT Inan, K De Jong… - IEEE/ACM Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We have long known that characterizing protein structures structure is key to understanding
protein function. Computational approaches have largely addressed a narrow formulation of …

Efficient exploration of protein conformational pathways using rrt* and mc

F Afrasiabi, N Haspel - Proceedings of the 11th ACM International …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
The conformational space of proteins is complex and high dimensional, which makes its
analysis a highly challenging task. Understanding the structure and dynamics of proteins is …

Integrating rigidity analysis into the exploration of protein conformational pathways using rrt* and mc

F Afrasiabi, R Dehghanpoor, N Haspel - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
To understand how proteins function on a cellular level, it is of paramount importance to
understand their structures and dynamics, including the conformational changes they …

Integrating co-evolutionary information in monte carlo based method for proteins trajectory simulation

A Vajdi, A Joshi, N Haspel - Proceedings of the 10th ACM International …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
The conformational space of proteins is complex and high dimensional, which makes its
analysis a highly challenging task. Understanding the structure and dynamics of proteins is …