How does averaging affect protein structure comparison on the ensemble level?

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 2240-2246

  Zagrovic, Bojan ^a,c   Pande, Vijay S ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION STUDY;

NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; PROTEIN; VILLIN HEADPIECE SUBDOMAIN PEPTIDE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 16644374796     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.104.042184     Document Type: Article

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