BMC Bioinformatics

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A replica exchange Monte Carlo algorithm for protein folding in the HP model

Chris Thachuk1, Alena Shmygelska2 and Holger H Hoos3*

Author Affiliations

1 School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., V5A 1S6, Canada

2 Department of Structural Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA

3 Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, B.C., V6T 1Z4, Canada

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BMC Bioinformatics 2007, 8:342 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-8-342

Published: 17 September 2007

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Additional file 1:

Supplemental material. This file contains tables listing the biologically motivated benchmark sets and the problems instances with a provably unique ground-state conformation. Additionally, results of simulations are reported for the rate of energy evaluations (per CPU second) achieved by our implementation.

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