A novel approach to decoy set generation: Designing a physical energy function having local minima with native structure characteristics

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 329, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 159-174

  Keasar, Chen ^a,b   Levitt, Michael ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Ab initio; Conformation; Energy function; Local minima; Optimization

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; SOLVENT;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ELECTRONICS; ENERGY; ENERGY YIELD; ENTROPY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0038708222     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(03)00323-1     Document Type: Article

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