Monte Carlo sampling of near-native structures of proteins with applications

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 61-68

  Zhang, Jinfeng ^a   Lin, Ming ^b   Chen, Rong ^b,c,d   Liang, Jie ^c   Liu, Jun S ^a,b,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Chicago   (United States)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Near native structures; Potential function; Protein structure prediction; Protein structure simulation; Sequential Monte Carlo; Structural representation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 33845675366     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.21203     Document Type: Article

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