Molecular dynamics simulations of membrane proteins

Biophysical Reviews

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 271-282

  Baştuğ, Turgut ^a   Kuyucak, Serdar ^b  

^a TOBB UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Free energy calculations; Ion channels; Molecular dynamics; Transporters

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873129310     PISSN: 18672450     EISSN: 18672469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12551-012-0084-9     Document Type: Review

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