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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik
DY 7: Poster I
DY 7.8: Poster
Monday, March 11, 2013, 17:30–19:30, Poster C
Structure optimization for models of protein folding by means of “local heat pulse”-quench cycles — •Florian Günther1, Arnulf Möbius2, and Michael Schreiber1 — 1Institute of Physics, Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany — 2Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics, IFW, Dresden, Germany
Protein folding is a very challenging task because the energy landscape exhibits a huge number of local minima. For such simulations, efficient heuristic algorithms are of high value. We investigate, whether and how the “local heat pulse”-quench cycling (LHPQC) approach [1], which has proved to be highly efficient for traveling salesman and Coulomb glass problems, can be applied to protein folding tasks. For that, we consider the hydrophobic-polar lattice model [2] and the continuous “3-color, 46-bead” model [3]. In evaluating the efficiency of the LHPQC approach, we compare with standard procedures as simulated annealing.
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