title: Protein tertiary structure prediction.
abstract: This unit addresses how to predict the tertiary structure of a protein from its amino acid sequence using computational methods. Three types of prediction methods--homology modeling, fold recognition, and ab initio prediction--are introduced.
authors.affiliation: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xu
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D011506:Proteins / Q000032:analysis / Q000737:chemistry*; D020539:Sequence Analysis, Protein / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins