Modeling of protein misfolding in disease

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 443, Issue , 2008, Pages 297-330

  Małolepsza, Edyta B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Amyloid; Molecular dynamics; Molecular modeling; Monte Carlo dynamics; Peptide; Prion disease; Replica exchange Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

EID: 84934443584     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-177-2_16     Document Type: Article

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