Challenges in protein-folding simulations

Nature Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 751-758

  Freddolino, Peter L ^a,c   Harrison, Christopher B ^a   Liu, Yanxin ^a,b   Schulten, Klaus ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; PROTEIN FOLDING; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

FOLDING PROCESS; HIGH RESOLUTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; PROTEIN FOLDING SIMULATION; RECENT PROGRESS; STRUCTURAL DATA; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TRUE POTENTIALS;

PROTEINS;

EID: 77957572546     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1713     Document Type: Article

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