Hamiltonian Switch Metropolis Monte Carlo simulations for improved conformational sampling of intrinsically disordered regions tethered to ordered domains of proteins

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 3550-3562

  Mittal, Anuradha ^a   Lyle, Nicholas ^a   Harmon, Tyler S ^a,b   Pappu, Rohit V ^c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

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EID: 84906277469     PISSN: 15499618     EISSN: 15499626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ct5002297     Document Type: Article

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