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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2005
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2002
J Barry Shackleford, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Gregory S. Snider, Mountain View, CA (US);
Richard J Carter, Menlo Park, CA (US);
J Barry Shackleford, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Gregory S. Snider, Mountain View, CA (US);
Richard J Carter, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a method and apparatus to significantly accelerate the searching process based on the Monte Carlo principle and the lattice model. Specifically, the energy status of a lattice-based protein conformation is evaluated by modeling the folding process through a pipelined digital circuit using a number of state machines. The pipelined digital circuit reduces the time required for the determination of the energy status of a particular conformation and, therefore, significantly accelerates the searching speed for the lowest energy status. The present invention also permits real-time tuning of problem parameters by the experimenter.