Protein folding and unfolding by all-atom molecular dynamics simulations

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 443, Issue , 2008, Pages 277-295

  Lei, Hongxing ^a   Duan, Yong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuum solvation model; Explicit solvent; Molecular dynamics; Protein folding; Replica exchange method; Unfolding

Indexed keywords

EID: 84934441874     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-177-2_15     Document Type: Article

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