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most citedA novel canonical dual computational approach for prion AGAAAAGA amyloid fibril molecular modeling

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math.OC2015

The Hybrid Idea of Optimization Methods Applied to the Energy Minimization of (Prion) Protein Structures Focusing on the beta2-alpha2 Loop

Jiapu Zhang

In molecular mechanics, current generation potential energy functions provide a reasonably good compromise between accuracy and effectiveness. This paper firstly reviewed several m…

math.OC2013

A global and superlinearly convergent algorithm for nonlinear nondifferential convex programming problems with a generalized Armijo line-search

Jiapu Zhang

This paper presents a new generalized Armijo's line-search method, and combines it with a phi-regulation defined to obtain a new algorithm solving the very general non-linear non-s…

math.OC2013

Simulated annealing: in mathematical global optimization computation, hybrid with local or global search, and practical applications in crystallography and molecular modelling

Jiapu Zhang

Simulated annealing (SA) was inspired from annealing in metallurgy, a technique involving heating and controlled cooling of a material to increase the size of its crystals and redu…

math.OC2012★ 18 cited

The LBFGS Quasi-Newtonian Method for Molecular Modeling Prion AGAAAAGA Amyloid Fibrils

Jiapu Zhang, Yating Hou, Yiju Wang +2

Experimental X-ray crystallography, NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) spectroscopy, dual polarization interferometry, etc are indeed very powerful tools to determine the 3-Dimension…

math.OC2012

Computational Potential Energy Minimization Studies on the Prion AGAAAAGA Amyloid Fibril Molecular Structures

Jiapu Zhang

X-ray crystallography, NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) spectroscopy, and dual polarization interferometry, etc are indeed very powerful tools to determine the 3D structures of pro…

math.OC2011

A strategy on prion AGAAAAGA amyloid fibril molecular modelling

Jiapu Zhang, David D. W. Liu

X-ray crystallography and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy are two powerful tools to determine the protein 3D structure. However, not all proteins can be successfully…

math.OC2011★ 3 cited

Canonical Duality Theory for Solving Minimization Problem of Rosenbrock Function

David Y. Gao, Jiapu Zhang

This paper presents a canonical duality theory for solving nonconvex minimization problem of Rosenbrock function. Extensive numerical results show that this benchmark test problem…

math.OC2011

Canonical dual theory applied to a Lennard-Jones potential minimization problem

Jiapu Zhang

The simplified Lennard-Jones (LJ) potential minimization problem is w…