Patent ID: 7574306
Filing Date: 2009-08-11
Classification: G16B,G16C

Abstract:
1. A method, carried out on an electronic computer, for determining a monomer sequence for a polymer in order to produce a polymer that adopts a specific, predetermined 3-dimensional conformation in a specified chemical environment, the method comprising: receiving, by the electronic computer, a specification of a desired 3-dimensional conformation; selecting, by the electronic computer, a number m of initial polymer-backbone conformations, where m is greater than 1; for each of the m initial polymer-backbone conformations, selecting, by an electronic computer, a number n of initial sequences, where n is greater than 1, thereby creating mn threads; iteratively outputting, by the electronic computer, final monomer sequences of a number of threads to a user by listing each of the number of threads in a computer-readable medium or on a display device, the listing indicating, for each of the number of threads, a probability or relative probability that a polymer having a sequence of the thread adopts the desired 3-dimensional conformation.