MOLS sampling and its applications in structural biophysics

Biophysics Reviews
L RamyaN Gautham

Abstract

This review describes the MOLS method and its applications. This computational method has been developed in our laboratory primarily to explore the conformational space of small peptides and identify features of interest, particularly the minima, i.e., the low energy conformations. A systematic "brute-force" search through the vast conformational space for such features faces the insurmountable problem of combinatorial explosion, whilst other techniques, e.g., Monte Carlo searches, are somewhat limited in their region of exploration and may be considered inexhaustive. The MOLS method, on the other hand, uses a sampling technique commonly employed in experimental design theory to identify a small sample of the conformational space that nevertheless retains information about the entire space. The information is extracted using a technique that is a variant of the self-consistent mean field technique, which has been used to identify, for example, the optimal set of side-chain conformations in a protein. Applications of the MOLS method to understand peptide structure, predict the structures of loops in proteins, predict three-dimensional structures of small proteins, and arrive at the best conformation, orientation, and positions o...Continue Reading

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