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Meanwhile, most protein decoy sets are pre-calculated and there is a lack of methods for automated generation of high-quality decoys for any target proteins.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: We developed a new algorithm, 3DRobot, to create protein structure decoys by free fragment assembly with enhanced hydrogen-bonding and compactness interactions. The method was benchmarked with three widely used decoy sets from ab initio folding and comparative modeling simulations. The decoys generated by 3DRobot are shown to have significantly enhanced diversity and evenness with a continuous distribution in the RMSD space. The new energy terms introduced in 3DRobot improve the hydrogen-bonding network and compactness of decoys, which eliminates the possibility of native structure recognition by trivial potentials. Algorithms that can automatically create such diverse and well-packed non-native conformations from any protein structure should have a broad impact on the development of advanced protein force field and folding simulation methods.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availiablity and implementation: \u00a0http:\/\/zhanglab.ccmb.med.umich.edu\/3DRobot\/<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0jiay@phy.ccnu.edu.cn; zhng@umich.edu<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btv601","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,10,16]],"date-time":"2015-10-16T00:48:17Z","timestamp":1444956497000},"page":"378-387","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":77,"title":["3DRobot: automated generation of diverse and well-packed protein structure decoys"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"32","author":[{"given":"Haiyou","family":"Deng","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 45108, USA,"},{"name":"2 Department of Physics and Institute of Biophysics, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China and"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ya","family":"Jia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 45108, USA,"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yang","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 45108, USA,"},{"name":"3 Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 45108, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,10,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023020110305613200_btv601-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1309","DOI":"10.1073\/pnas.47.9.1309","article-title":"The kinetics of formation of native ribonuclease during oxidation of the reduced polypeptide chain","volume":"47","author":"Anfinsen","year":"1961","journal-title":"Proc. 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