Folding very short peptides using molecular dynamics

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 228-237

  Ho, Bosco K ^a   Dill, Ken A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; COARSE-GRAINED MODELING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

COARSE-GRAINED; CONFORMATIONAL PREFERENCES; ELECTROSTATIC APPROXIMATION; FOLDINGS; GENERALIZED BORN; IMPLICIT SOLVENTS; NATIVE STRUCTURES; PHYSICS-BASED MODELS; REPLICA-EXCHANGE MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; STRUCTURE-BASED;

PEPTIDES;

PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; PEPTIDE; SOLVENT;

ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PREDICTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; BIOLOGY; BIOPHYSICS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ENTROPY; KINETICS; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIOPHYSICAL PHENOMENA; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTROPY; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEOMICS; SOLVENTS;

EID: 33646229281     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020027     Document Type: Article

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