Optimizing Physical Energy Functions for Protein Folding

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 88-103

  Fujitsuka, Yoshimi ^a   Takada, Shoji ^a,b   Luthey Schulten, Zaida A ^c   Wolynes, Peter G ^d  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Folding; Monte Carlo search; Physical energy functions; Structure prediction

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; ENERGY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0347417009     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.10429     Document Type: Article

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