Biochemical Colloquium – Special Topics in Biochemistry: Prof. Dr. Jens Meiler, Center for Structural Biology, Departments of Chemistry, Pharmacology, and Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville Tenessee Date October 24, 2017 / 5 PM Venue Leipzig University, ITP – Institute for Theoretical Physics, Lecture Hall, Linnéstraße 5, 04103 Leipzig, Germany. Backround The protein folding problem – i.e. predicting the three-dimensional structure of a protein from its amino acid sequence alone – is an unsolved problem in computational biology. I will present a novel computational approach to this problem that assembles protein tertiary structure from predicted secondary structure elements. I will demonstrate how this algorithm can be combined with limited EPR- and NMR-spectroscopic