Soft Computing Approach to Pattern Recognition and Image Processing - Part IV: Real Life Applications - Protein Structure Prediction using Soft Computing

摘要

Bioinformatics is a newly emerging interdisciplinary research area involving an interface between biological and computational sciences. It encompasses proteins that play an important role in all living organism. The structure of proteins is typically made up of a sequence of ammo acids. Prediction of secondary and tertiary protein structures from these primary amino acid sequences is a challenging task. In this chapter we wish to highlight the use of soft computing tools, particularly artificial neural networks and genetic algorithms, for this purpose. The learning ability of neural networks and the searching potential of genetic algorithms are utilized in the process.