A Review of Physics-Based Coarse-Grained Potentials for the Simulations of Protein Structure and Dynamics

Annual Reports in Computational Chemistry

Volumn 8, Issue , 2012, Pages 129-148

  Shen, Hujun ^a   Xia, Zhen ^b   Li, Guohui ^a   Ren, Pengyu ^b  

^a DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Coarse grained; Force field; Physics based; Protein

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866493817     PISSN: 15741400     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-59440-2.00005-3     Document Type: Chapter

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