Long-timescale simulation methods

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 151-156

  Elber, Ron ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; LIGAND; PROTEIN;

CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; MACROMOLECULE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIMULATION;

EID: 17044425870     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2005.02.004     Document Type: Review

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