Protein structure prediction
When a protein is manufactured in the cell, it assumes a
characteristic 3D structure or fold. It is very costly to
determine the 3D structure of a protein experimentally (by
NMR or X-ray crystallography). It would be much cheaper
if we could predict the 3D structure of a protein directly
from its sequence of amino acids that is coded in the
genome. This is known as the protein folding problem.
Many approaches have been proposed to develop
algorithms for solving this problem; so far results are