I-TASSER

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I-TASSER (Iterative Threading ASSEmbly Refinement) is a bioinformatics method for predicting three-dimensional structure model of protein molecules from amino acid sequences.[1] It detects structure templates from the Protein Data Bank by a technique called fold recognition (or threading). The full-length structure models are constructed by reassembling structural fragments from threading templates using replica exchange Monte Carlo simulations. I-TASSER is one of the most successful protein structure prediction methods in the community-wide CASP experiments.

I-TASSER result example

References

I-TASSER: a unified platform for automated protein structure and function prediction (2010), Ambrish Roy, Alper Kucukural & Yang Zhang, Nature Protocols Volume 5, pages 725–738