Work distribution in manipulated single biomolecules

Physical Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Imparato, A ^a   Peliti, L ^b,c  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REPRODUCIBILITY; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOTION; THERMODYNAMICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOTION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 68349139439     PISSN: 14783967     EISSN: 14783975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1478-3975/6/2/025011     Document Type: Article

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