Use of quantitative structure-property relationships to predict the folding ability of model proteins

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 177-203

  Dinner, Aaron R ^a   So, Sung Sau ^a   Karplus, Martin ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Genetic algorithm; Lattice model; Monte Carlo; Neural network; Protein folding; QSPR

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; LIGAND BINDING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0031686333     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0134(19981101)33:2<177::AID-PROT4>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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