Computational Determination of the Relative Free Energy of Binding – Application to Alanine Scanning Mutagenesis

Challenges and Advances in Computational Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages 305-339

  Moreira, Irina S ^a   Fernandes, Pedro A ^a   Ramos, Maria J ^a  

^a Campus Universitário de Santiago   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Binding free energy; Computational mutagenesis; Empirical functions; Fully atomistic methods; MM PBSA; Protein protein association

Indexed keywords

EID: 85073152393     PISSN: 25424491     EISSN: 25424483     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5372-X_6     Document Type: Chapter

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