Constructing the equilibrium ensemble of folding pathways from short off-equilibrium simulations

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 45, 2009, Pages 19011-19016

  Noé, Frank ^a   Schütte, Christof ^a   Vanden Eijnden, Eric ^b   Reich, Lothar ^c   Weikl, Thomas R ^c  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; PROTEIN PINWW; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; SIMULATION;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS;

EID: 70450255797     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0905466106     Document Type: Article

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