Accelerating all-atom protein folding simulations through reduced dihedral barriers

Molecular Simulation

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 773-777

  Endres, R G ^a,b,c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

AMBER; Force field; Generalized born model; Implicit solvent model; Molecular dynamics; Protein folding

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SOLVENTS;

FORCE FIELD; IMPLICIT SOLVENT MODEL; PROTEIN FOLDING;

PROTEINS;

EID: 25444445578     PISSN: 08927022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08927020500266128     Document Type: Article

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