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However, in the tightly packed environments of protein interiors, these methods will inherently lead to atomic clashes and hinder the prediction accuracy.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Results: We present a side-chain modeling method (CIS-RR), which couples a novel clash-detection guided iterative search (CIS) algorithm with continuous torsion space optimization of rotamers (RR). Benchmark testing shows that compared with the existing popular side-chain modeling methods, CIS-RR removes atomic clashes much more effectively and achieves comparable or even better prediction accuracy while having comparable computational cost. We believe that CIS-RR could be a useful method for accurate side-chain modeling.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Availability: CIS-RR is available to non-commercial users at our website: http:\/\/jianglab.ibp.ac.cn\/lims\/cisrr\/cisrr.html.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Contact: \u00a0taijiao@moon.ibp.ac.cn<\/jats:p><jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btr009","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2011,1,8]],"date-time":"2011-01-08T01:26:38Z","timestamp":1294449998000},"page":"785-790","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":62,"title":["Improved side-chain modeling by coupling clash-detection guided iterative search with rotamer relaxation"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"27","author":[{"given":"Yang","family":"Cao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101 and 2Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China"},{"name":"1 National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101 and 2Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China"}]},{"given":"Lin","family":"Song","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101 and 2Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China"},{"name":"1 National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101 and 2Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China"}]},{"given":"Zhichao","family":"Miao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101 and 2Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China"},{"name":"1 National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101 and 2Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China"}]},{"given":"Yun","family":"Hu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101 and 2Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China"},{"name":"1 National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101 and 2Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China"}]},{"given":"Liqing","family":"Tian","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101 and 2Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China"},{"name":"1 National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101 and 2Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China"}]},{"given":"Taijiao","family":"Jiang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101 and 2Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2010,1,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023012511544006400_B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1399-3011.1983.tb02062.x","article-title":"Statistical and energetic analysis of side-chain conformations in oligopeptides","volume":"22","author":"Benedetti","year":"1983","journal-title":"Int. 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