Title
Soft computing methods for disulfide connectivity prediction
Date Issued
20 October 2015
Access level
open access
Resource Type
review article
Author(s)
Márquez-Chamorro Alfonso
School of Engineering, Pablo de Olavide University, Seville, Spain
School of Engineering, Pablo de Olavide University, Seville, Spain
Publisher(s)
Libertas Academica Ltd.
Abstract
The problem of protein structure prediction (PSP) is one of the main challenges in structural bioinformatics. To tackle this problem, PSP can be divided into several subproblems. One of these subproblems is the prediction of disulfide bonds. The disulfide connectivity prediction problem consists in identifying which nonadjacent cysteines would be cross-linked from all possible candidates. Determining the disulfide bond connectivity between the cysteines of a protein is desirable as a previous step of the 3D PSP, as the protein conformational search space is highly reduced. The most representative soft computing approaches for the disulfide bonds connectivity prediction problem of the last decade are summarized in this paper. Certain aspects, such as the different methodologies based on soft computing approaches (artificial neural network or support vector machine) or features of the algorithms, are used for the classification of these methods.
Start page
223
End page
229
Volume
11
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Informática y Ciencias de la Información
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84949520079
Source
Evolutionary Bioinformatics
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