In article <73ae2237.0208251524.2c7826ae at posting.google.com>, Mike Smith wrote:
> I am very interested in protein structure prediction and the protein
> folding problem.
...
> I would appreciate if you could direct me to any research groups or
> resources of which I could obtain the latest research and current
> developments in this area.
Hey, that's my field! We have one of the top groups in
protein-structure prediction here at UCSC. You probably won't get
many answers to your query right now, because it is the peak of CASP5
season, and we're having to submit up to 6 predictions a day.
I've been working 12-18-hour days, 7 days a week on this (and I don't
even have any summer research salary).
Go to
http://predictioncenter.llnl.gov/casp5/
to find out about the CASP5 experiment---one of the neatest things in
science: registering blind predictions to test prediction methods.
After each CASP there is a series of articles in a special issue of
Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics. You should be able to
find them in a research library. They provide the best overview of
what works in the field, but are about a year or two out of date by
the time they come out.
Several books have been published on the subject---I've even written a
chapter for one of them.
I can't tell you what prediction methods are working best right now,
but after CASP5 in December, we should have a much more current picture.
--
Kevin Karplus karplus at soe.ucsc.eduhttp://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~karplus
Professor of Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz
Undergraduate Director, Bioinformatics
Affiliations for identification only.
