Density guided importance sampling: Application to a reduced model of protein folding

Bioinformatics

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2839-2843

  Thomas, Geraint L ^a   Sessions, Richard B ^b   Parker, Martin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; DENSITY; HISTOGRAM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PLOTS AND CURVES; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SAMPLING; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

EID: 20844451741     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bti421     Document Type: Article

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