4 research outputs found
Computational Protein Design Using AND/OR Branch-and-Bound Search
The computation of the global minimum energy conformation (GMEC) is an
important and challenging topic in structure-based computational protein
design. In this paper, we propose a new protein design algorithm based on the
AND/OR branch-and-bound (AOBB) search, which is a variant of the traditional
branch-and-bound search algorithm, to solve this combinatorial optimization
problem. By integrating with a powerful heuristic function, AOBB is able to
fully exploit the graph structure of the underlying residue interaction network
of a backbone template to significantly accelerate the design process. Tests on
real protein data show that our new protein design algorithm is able to solve
many prob- lems that were previously unsolvable by the traditional exact search
algorithms, and for the problems that can be solved with traditional provable
algorithms, our new method can provide a large speedup by several orders of
magnitude while still guaranteeing to find the global minimum energy
conformation (GMEC) solution.Comment: RECOMB 201
Protein side-chain placement through MAP estimation and problem-size reduction
Abstract. We present an exact method for the global minimum energy conformation (GMEC) search of protein side-chains. Our method consists of a branch-and-bound (B&B) framework and a new subproblempruning scheme. The pruning scheme consists of upper/lower-bounding methods and problem-size reduction techniques. We explore a way of using the tree-reweighted max-product algorithm for computing lowerbounds of the GMEC energy. The problem-size reduction techniques are necessary when the size of the subproblem is too large to rely on more accurate yet expensive bounding methods. The experimental results show our pruning scheme is effective and our B&B method exactly solves protein sequence design cases that are very hard to solve with the dead-end elimination.
Protein Side-chain Placement through MAP Estimation and Problem-Size Reduction
Abstract. We present an exact method for the global minimum energy conformation (GMEC) search of protein side-chains. Our method consists of a branch-and-bound (B&B) framework and a new subproblempruning scheme. The pruning scheme consists of upper/lower-bounding methods and problem-size reduction techniques. We explore a way of using the tree-reweighted max-product algorithm for computing lowerbounds of the GMEC energy. The problem-size reduction techniques are necessary when the size of the subproblem is too large to rely on more accurate yet expensive bounding methods. The experimental results show our pruning scheme is effective and our B&B method exactly solves protein sequence design cases that are very hard to solve with the dead-end elimination.