Lessons from the design of a novel atomic potential for protein folding

Protein Science

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1741-1752

  Chen, William W ^a   Shakhnovich, Eugene I ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atomic; Fold recognition; Optimization; Potential; Protein folding; Random energy model

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ATOM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 22244483130     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.051440705     Document Type: Article

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