A probabilistic approach to protein structure prediction: PHAISTOS in CASP8
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چکیده
The prediction of the 3-dimensional structure of a protein given its chemical composition (that is, its amino acid sequence), remains an elusive problem in spite of decades of research efforts. The rate of progress in the field is even stagnating, and much of the improvements seen in the last couple of years can be attributed to larger databases of experimentally determined protein structures, and to more powerful computers (Kryshtafovych et al., 2007).
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