Graph based approaches to protein structure prediction

Henning Stehr

Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics, Otto-Warburg-Laboratory /
Structural Proteomics Group, Berlin, Germany

Based on a newly developed theory of the sample mean of a set of graphs, we show how multiple structure alignment, consensus contact prediction and multi-template homology modelling can be phrased as graph problems. Since this leads to NP-hard problems in many cases, we propose heuristic algorithms to approximate the optimal solution. We show applications in modelling the effects of cancer mutations on protein structure and function.

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