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LINUS, local independent nucleated units of structure

is an ab initio structure prediction program

build three residue segments and perturb the conformations

decide based on Monte Carlo which to keep, the new or the old structure

assemble local regions into larger fragments

Problems:

energy function is approximate (uses steric repulsion, clustering of buried hydrophobic residues, H-bonds, salt bridges)

dynamics simplified