Fast structure similarity searches among protein models: efficient clustering of protein fragments

A fast conformational search strategy fo

A fast conformational search strategy for finding low energy structures of model proteins

✍ Thomas C. Beutler; Ken A. Dill 📂 Article 📅 1996 🏛 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 🌐 English ⚖ 634 KB

## Abstract We describe a new computer algorithm for finding low‐energy conformations of proteins. It is a chain‐growth method that uses a heuristic bias function to help assemble a hydrophobic core. We call it the Core‐directed chain Growth method (CG). We test the CG method on several well‐known