Taming the complexity of protein folding

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 4-11

  Bowman, Gregory R ^a   Voelz, Vincent A ^a   Pande, Vijay S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS;

EID: 79551682100     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2010.10.006     Document Type: Review

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