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The prediction of protein structure is an important problem in molecular biology. It is also a difficult problem since the available data are incomplete and uncertain. This paper describes models for the prediction of a particular level of protein structure, known as the topology, which handle uncertainty in a qualitative fashion.
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Parsons, S. (1995). Using qualitative uncertainty in protein topology prediction. In: Froidevaux, C., Kohlas, J. (eds) Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning and Uncertainty. ECSQARU 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 946. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60112-0_39
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