A Reduced Protein Model with Accurate Native-Structure Identification Ability

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 889-907

  Betancourt, Marcos R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Folding kinetics; Knowledge based potentials; Protein folding; Reduced protein models; Structure prediction

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; ENERGY; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACIDS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0345411953     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.10498     Document Type: Article

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