Using Local States to Drive the Sampling of Global Conformations in Proteins

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1368-1379

  Pandini, Alessandro ^a   Fornili, Arianna ^b  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

CHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS;

EID: 84960462368     PISSN: 15499618     EISSN: 15499626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.5b00992     Document Type: Article

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