Implicit Solvent Electrostatics in Biomolecular Simulation

Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering

Volumn 49, Issue , 2006, Pages 263-295

  Baker, Nathan A ^a   Bashford, Donald ^b   Case, David A ^c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

biomolecular simulation; continuum solvent; Electrostatics; Generalized Born; implicit solvent; Poisson Boltzmann

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; DISSOCIATION; ELECTROSTATICS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; PROTEINS;

BIOMOLECULAR SIMULATION; CONTINUUM SOLVENTS; GENERALIZED BORN; IMPLICIT SOLVENTS; POISSON-BOLTZMANN;

SOLVENTS;

EID: 84962375368     PISSN: 14397358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-31618-3_15     Document Type: Article

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