Statistical analysis and molecular dynamics simulations of ambivalent α -helices

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Bhattacharjee, Nicholus ^a   Biswas, Parbati ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID PROPENSITIES; CONFORMATIONAL CHANGE; CONFORMATIONAL PREFERENCES; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; SITE-DIRECTED MUTATION; STRUCTURAL CLASSIFICATION; STRUCTURAL VARIABILITY;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACIDS; ANISOTROPY; CONFORMATIONS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

PROTEINS;

PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATABASES, PROTEIN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS;

EID: 77957896275     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-11-519     Document Type: Article

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