Role of environmental specificity in CASP results.

Journal: BMC bioinformatics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Recently, significant progress has been made in the field of protein structure prediction by the application of artificial intelligence techniques, as shown by the results of the CASP13 and CASP14 (Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction) competition. However, the question of the mechanism behind the protein folding process itself remains unanswered. Correctly predicting the structure also does not solve the problem of, for example, amyloid proteins, where a polypeptide chain with an unaltered sequence adopts a different 3D structure.

Authors

  • Irena Roterman
    Department of Bioinformatics and Telemedicine, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland.
  • Katarzyna Stapor
    Department of Applied Informatics, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland.
  • Leszek Konieczny
    Jagiellonian University - Medical College, Kopernika 7, 31-034, Krakow, Poland.