Graduate Student, Center for Advanced Process Decision-making
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Prof. Nick Sahinidis
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About
Proteins are chains of amino acid residues and are important due to their large range of functionality and indispensibility to the living cell. The fundamental property of the proteins responsible for their varied functions is the various different shapes and 3-d conformation the proteins assume. Since structure is so fundamental to the proteins and is also the main conserved property under similar functionality, classifying and comparing proteins based on their structures is quite useful. My work aims at developing fast and accurate protein structure comparison algorithms. I am currently working on improving the structure alignment tool CMOS (www.eudoxus.cheme.cmu.edu/cmos/cmos.html) and developing a new algorithm on a continuous alignment model utilizing derivative free optimization techniques.
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