A coarse-grained Langevin molecular dynamics approach to de novo protein structure prediction

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 369, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 500-506

  Sasaki, Takeshi N ^a   Cetin, Hikmet ^a   Sasai, Masaki ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fragment assembly; Langevin dynamics; Protein structure prediction

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

EID: 40849086146     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2008.02.048     Document Type: Article

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