Exploring the universe of protein structures beyond the protein data bank

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Cossio, Pilar ^a   Trovato, Antonio ^b   Pietrucci, Fabio ^a,c   Seno, Flavio ^b   Maritan, Amos ^b   Laio, Alessandro ^a  

^a DEMOCRITOS NATIONAL SIMULATION CENTER   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN FOLDING;

ACID POLYPEPTIDE; AMINO-ACIDS; ATOM INTERACTION; CONFORMATIONAL SPACE; INTERACTION POTENTIALS; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; POLYPEPTIDES CHAINS; PROTEIN DATA BANK; PROTEINS STRUCTURES; SECONDARY STRUCTURES;

POTENTIAL ENERGY;

AMINO ACID; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PREDICTION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DATA BANK; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; PROTEIN DATABASE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, PROTEIN; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS;

EID: 78649636970     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000957     Document Type: Article

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