TOUCHSTONE II: A new approach to ab initio protein structure prediction

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 1145-1164

  Zhang, Yang ^a   Kolinski, Andrzej ^a,b   Skolnick, Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0041843696     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(03)74551-2     Document Type: Article

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