Protein folding and chart parsing

How can proteins fold so quickly into their unique native structures? We show here that there is a natural analogy between parsing and the protein folding problem, and demonstrate that CKY can find the native structures of a simplified lattice model of proteins with high accuracy.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: EMNLP
• Authors: Julia Hockenmaier, Aravind K. Joshi, Ken A. Dill
• Keywords: EMNLP 2006, EMNLP 2007, Native Structures, Proteins, Unique Native Structures