An immune algorithm for protein structure prediction on lattice models

IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 101-117

  Cutello, Vincenzo ^a   Nicosia, Giuseppe ^a   Pavone, Mario ^a   Timmis, Jonathan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging operator; Clonal selection algorithms; Functional model proteins; Hypermacromutation operator; Hypermutation operator; Immune algorithms (IAs); Protein structure prediction problem; Three dimensional HP model; Two dimensional HP model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORECASTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

AGING OPERATOR; CLONAL SELECTION ALGORITHMS; FUNCTIONAL MODEL PROTEINS; HYPERMACROMUTATION OPERATOR; HYPERMUTATION OPERATOR; IMMUNE ALGORITHMS; LATTICE MODELS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE PREDICTION PROBLEM (PSP);

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 33947230224     PISSN: 1089778X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEVC.2006.880328     Document Type: Article

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