Selecting near-native conformations in homology modeling: The role of molecular mechanics and solvation terms

Protein Science

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1772-1780

  Janardhan, Ajit ^a   Vajda, Sandor ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Free energy; Loop closure; Protein conformation; Side chain search

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENTROPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SOLVATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032461411     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pro.5560070812     Document Type: Article

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