Helix propensities of short peptides: Molecular dynamics versus bioinformatics

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 552-562

  Bystroff, Christopher ^a   Garde, Shekhar ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

I sites library; Knowledge based potentials; Motifs; Protein folding; Secondary structure propensity; Structure prediction; Template effect

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HYDROPHOBICITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

EID: 0037339393     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.10252     Document Type: Article

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