Atomically Detailed Simulations of Helix Formation with the Stochastic Difference Equation

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 2919-2939

  Cárdenas, Alfredo E ^a,b   Elber, Ron ^a  

^a Department of Computer Science and School of Operations Research and Information Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPEPTIDE; VALINE;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ALPHA HELIX; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATOM; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ENERGY; FILTRATION; KINETICS; META TRAJECTORY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOTION; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIMULATION; STEEPEST DESCENT PATH; STOCHASTIC MODEL; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0242353856     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(03)74713-4     Document Type: Article

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