Stivala AD, Stuckey PJ, Wirth AI. Fast and accurate protein substructure searching with simulated annealing and GPUs.
BMC Bioinformatics 2010;
11:446. [PMID:
20813068 PMCID:
PMC2944279 DOI:
10.1186/1471-2105-11-446]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2010] [Accepted: 09/03/2010] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND
Searching a database of protein structures for matches to a query structure, or occurrences of a structural motif, is an important task in structural biology and bioinformatics. While there are many existing methods for structural similarity searching, faster and more accurate approaches are still required, and few current methods are capable of substructure (motif) searching.
RESULTS
We developed an improved heuristic for tableau-based protein structure and substructure searching using simulated annealing, that is as fast or faster and comparable in accuracy, with some widely used existing methods. Furthermore, we created a parallel implementation on a modern graphics processing unit (GPU).
CONCLUSIONS
The GPU implementation achieves up to 34 times speedup over the CPU implementation of tableau-based structure search with simulated annealing, making it one of the fastest available methods. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first application of a GPU to the protein structural search problem.
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