Protein sequence optimization - Theory, practice, and fundamental impossibility

Soft Materials

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-10

  Torda, Andrew E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Negative design; Protein engineering; Protein sequence design; Sequence optimization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FREE ENERGY; FUNCTIONS; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

NEGATIVE DESIGNS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN SEQUENCE DESIGN; SEQUENCE OPTIMIZATION;

PROTEINS;

EID: 3042733278     PISSN: 1539445X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/SMTS-120030139     Document Type: Article

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