Bluues: A program for the analysis of the electrostatic properties of proteins based on generalized Born radii

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 13, Issue SUPPL.4, 2012, Pages

  Fogolari, Federico ^a,b   Corazza, Alessandra ^a,b   Yarra, Vijaylakshmi ^a   Jalaru, Anusha ^a   Viglino, Paolo ^a,b   Esposito, Gennaro ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOSTRUCTURES AND BIOSYSTEMS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOLTZMANN EQUATION; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; FREE ENERGY; MOLECULES; POISSON EQUATION; PROTEINS;

BIOMOLECULAR ELECTROSTATICS; ELECTROSTATIC EFFECT; ELECTROSTATIC POTENTIALS; ELECTROSTATIC PROPERTIES; ELECTROSTATIC SOLVATION FREE ENERGIES; GENERALIZED BORN; GENERALIZED BORN MODELS; INPUT AND OUTPUTS; IONIZABLE GROUPS; LINEAR APPROXIMATIONS; PH RANGE; PH-DEPENDENT; POISSON-BOLTZMANN; POISSON-BOLTZMANN EQUATIONS; SINGLE INPUT; SURFACE INTEGRALS; TEST PARTICLES; TOTAL CHARGE;

ELECTROSTATIC FORCE;

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; PH; STATIC ELECTRICITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PROTEINS; SOFTWARE; STATIC ELECTRICITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84864924127     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-13-S4-S18     Document Type: Article

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