Protein folding and chart parsing

  • Authors:
  • Julia Hockenmaier;Aravind K. Joshi;Ken A. Dill

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA;University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA;University of California, San Francisco, CA

  • Venue:
  • EMNLP '06 Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

How can proteins fold so quickly into their unique native structures? We show here that there is a natural analogy between parsing and the protein folding problem, and demonstrate that CKY can find the native structures of a simplified lattice model of proteins with high accuracy.