Special Topics in Computational Biology: Protein Structure Prediction 15-872(A)

Instructor

Chris Langmead, WeH 4103, cjl at cs.cmu.edu

Description
We will read a series of papers on protein structure prediction. Topics such as ab initio prediction, comparative modeling, and threading will be covered, among others. Students will be required to present papers, prepare short written summaries of each paper they present, and complete a term-project.

The class Wiki will be the primary means of distributing materials.

Prerequisites:

15-879 or permission of instructor

Course Information

Classes: T, TH 7:00 - 8:20 PM ; WeH 5409

 

Office Hours: by appointment

 

 

Syllabus

Date

Speaker

Reading

Slides

1/11

Chris Langmead

None; introduction to the course

Class_1.ppt

1/18

Chris Langmead

Paper 1: Protein Structure Prediction and Structural Genomics, Baker and Sali;  Paper 2: Have We seen all structures corresponding to short protein fragmentsin the PDB? An update, Du et al

Jan182005.ppt

1/25

Peter Zullo

Mining Protein Contact MapsHu et al

 

2/1

Swapnil Upganlawar

A surprising simplicity to protein folding

 

 

2/3

 

 

 

2/8

Ka-Young An

Protein Backbone Angle Prediction with Machine Learning Approaches

 

2/10

Mohit Kumar

Use of Chemical Shifts in Macromolecular Structure Determination  Wishart and Case

 

2/15

Ruben Valas

Predicting Disorder for N-, C- and Internal Regions

 

2/17

Narayanan R.

Conserved residue clustering and protein structure prediction Shueler-furman  and Baker

 

2/22

 

NO CLASS

 

2/24

 

NO CLASS

 

3/1

K.Arun

A multibody, whole-residue potential for protein structures, with

testing by Monte Carlo simulated annealing  Mayewski

 

3/3

Peter Zullo

A complete and effective move set for simplified protein folding Lesh et al

 

3/8

 

NO CLASS; Spring Break

 

3/10

 

NO CLASS; Spring Break

 

3/15

K.Arun

Assessment of progress over the CASP experiments.

Venclovas C, Zemla A, Fidelis K, Moult J.

Proteins. 2003;53 Suppl 6:585-95.       

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/106559026/PDFSTART

 

http://predictioncenter.llnl.gov/casp6/meeting/presentations/talks.html

 

 

3/17

 

No Class

 

3/22

Swapnil Upganlawar

HMMSTR: a Hidden Markov Model for Local Sequence-Structure Correlations in Proteins

 

3/24

Mohit Kumar

Rapid and accurate calculation of protein 1H, 13C, and 15N chemical shifts

 

3/29

Yan Liu

Population statistics of protein structures: lessons from structural classifications

 

3/31

Ka-Young An

A Machine Learning Strategy for Protein Analysis

 

Meta’Approaches to Protein Structure Prediction

 

4/5

 

No Class

 

4/7

 

No Class

 

4/12

Ruben Valas

Factors Affecting the Ability of Energy Functions to

Discriminate Correct from Incorrect Folds

 

4/14

 

No Class, Carnival

 

4/19

Narayanan R.

TRILOGY: Discovery of sequence-structure patterns across diverse proteins

 

4/21

 

No Class

 

4/26

Project presentations

 

 

4/28

 

No Class