Coarse grained modeling and approaches to protein folding

Current Bioinformatics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 217-240

  Guardiani, Carlo ^a   Livi, Roberto ^b   Cconi, Fabio Ce ^c  

^a INFN SEZIONE DI FIRENZE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c INFM   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coarse graining; Effective potentials; Protein folding; Protein modelling; United atom

Indexed keywords

COARSE-GRAINED MODELING; FORECASTING;

COARSE GRAINING; COARSE-GRAINED; COARSE-GRAINED APPROACHES; COARSE-GRAINED MODELING; EFFECTIVE POTENTIALS; PREDICTION METHODS; PROTEIN FOLDINGS; PROTEIN MODELS; PROTEINS STRUCTURES; UNITED ATOMS;

PROTEIN FOLDING;

ARTICLE; ATOM; BIOLOGY; GO MODEL WITH DESOLVATION; HONEYCUTT THIRUMALAI MODEL; IRBACK C BETA MODEL; ISING LIKE MODEL; KARANICOLAS BROOKS MODEL; KOLINSKI SKOLNICK 2 BEAD MODEL; KOLINSKI SKOLNICK MODEL; LEVITT MODEL; MIYAZAWA JERNIGAN MODEL; MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OFF LATTICE GO MODEL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SINGLE BEAD MODEL; SORENSON HEAD GORDON MODEL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STILLINGER MODEL; TWO BEAD MODEL; UNRES MODEL; X RAY;

EID: 78650024592     PISSN: 15748936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157489310792006729     Document Type: Article

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