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The problem of protein structure prediction in the hydrophobic-polar (HP) lattice model is the prediction of protein tertiary structure. This problem is usually referred to as the protein folding problem. This paper presents a method for the application of an enhanced hybrid search algorithm to the problem of protein folding prediction, using the three dimensional (3D) HP lattice model. The enhanced hybrid search algorithm is a combination of the particle swarm optimizer (PSO) and tabu search (TS) algorithms. Since the PSO algorithm entraps local minimum in later evolution extremely easily, we combined PSO with the TS algorithm, which has properties of global optimization. Since the technologies of crossover and mutation are applied many times to PSO and TS algorithms, so enhanced hybrid search algorithm is called the MCMPSO-TS (multiple crossover and mutation PSO-TS) algorithm. Experimental results show that the MCMPSO-TS algorithm can find the best solutions so far for the listed benchmarks, which will help comparison with any future paper approach. Moreover, real protein sequences and Fibonacci sequences are verified in the 3D HP lattice model for the first time. Compared with the previous evolutionary algorithms, the new hybrid search algorithm is novel, and can be used effectively to predict 3D protein folding structure. With continuous development and changes in amino acids sequences, the new algorithm will also make a contribution to the study of new protein sequences.
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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.31170797,30870573,61103057), the Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (No.IRT1109), the Key Project of Chinese Ministry of Education (No.211036), the Program for Liaoning Excellent Talents in University (No.LR201003).
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Zhou, C., Hou, C., Zhang, Q. et al. Enhanced hybrid search algorithm for protein structure prediction using the 3D-HP lattice model. J Mol Model 19, 3883–3891 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00894-013-1907-8
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