Adaptive Conformation Sampling Dataset Zaman_TCBB21

We have long known that the characterization of protein three-dimensional structure is key to obtaining a detailed understanding of protein function. Computational approaches to protein structure characterization have largely addressed a narrow formulation of the problem, where the goal is the determination of one structure, also known as the native structure, from a given protein amino-acid sequence. However, many researchers over the years have argued for broadening our view of proteins to account for the multiplicity of native structures. Our understanding of proteins has become more nuanced, and we now know of many protein molecules that make use of large motions, often of several angstroms, to switch between different structures that allow them to tune/regulate interactions with diverse molecular partners (and so engage in complex cellular reactions). Elucidating such structures de novo is considered to be an exceptionally difficulty problem, as it requires exploration of possibly a very large structure space in search of competing, near-optimal energy minima. This dataset is associated with our paper titled, Adaptive Stochastic Optimization to Improve Protein Conformation Sampling, where we report on a novel stochastic optimization method capable of revealing very distinct structures for a given protein from knowledge of its amino-acid sequence. The method leverages evolutionary search techniques and adapts its exploration of the vast structure space to balance between exploration and exploitation in the presence of a computational budget. This dataset provides the biologically-active conformations of the protein targets used for evaluation and necessary data (sequence, fragment files) for conformation sampling. The dataset includes a benchmark metamorphic test dataset for researchers to continue advancing work on this problem. The paper is under review and we will update the link to the paper once it is published. The codes associated with this dataset can be found in, https://github.com/psp-codes/adaptive-conformation-sampling