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The need for automatic methods has brought the development of several prediction and modelling tools, but a general methodology able to solve the problem has not yet been devised, and most methodologies concentrate on the simplified task of predicting secondary structure.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>In this paper we concentrate on the problem of predicting secondary structures by adopting a technology based on multiple experts. The system performs an overall processing based on two main steps: first, a \"sequence-to-structure\" prediction is enforced by resorting to a population of hybrid (genetic-neural) experts, and then a \"structure-to-structure\" prediction is performed by resorting to an artificial neural network. Experiments, performed on sequences taken from well-known protein databases, allowed to reach an accuracy of about 76%, which is comparable to those obtained by state-of-the-art predictors.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>The adoption of a hybrid technique, which encompasses genetic and neural technologies, has demonstrated to be a promising approach in the task of protein secondary structure prediction.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/1471-2105-6-s4-s3","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2005,12,3]],"date-time":"2005-12-03T07:14:06Z","timestamp":1133594046000},"update-policy":"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["A Hybrid Genetic-Neural System for Predicting Protein Secondary Structure"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"6","author":[{"given":"Giuliano","family":"Armano","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Gianmaria","family":"Mancosu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Luciano","family":"Milanesi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Alessandro","family":"Orro","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Massimiliano","family":"Saba","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Eloisa","family":"Vargiu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2005,12,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"718_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"349","DOI":"10.1006\/jmbi.1996.0325","volume":"259","author":"RB Russell","year":"1996","unstructured":"Russell RB, Copley RR, Barton GJ: Protein fold recognition by mapping predicted secondary structures. 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