Computational Methods for Protein Structure Prediction and Modeling Volume 1: Basic Characterization /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Xu, Ying (Editor), Xu, Dong (Editor), Liang, Jie (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2007.
• Series: BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL PHYSICS BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING,
• Subjects: Physics.; Proteomics.; Proteins.; Bioinformatics.; Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Biophysics and Biological Physics.; Protein Science.

Volume one of this two volume sequence focuses on the basic characterization of known protein structures as well as structure prediction from protein sequence information. The 11 chapters provide an overview of the field, covering key topics in modeling, force fields, classification, computational m...

Table of Contents:

• A Historical Perspective and Overview of Protein Structure Prediction
• Empirical Force Fields
• Knowledge-Based Energy Functions for Computational Studies of Proteins
• Computational Methods for Domain Partitioning of Protein Structures
• Protein Structure Comparison and Classification
• Computation of Protein Geometry and Its Applications: Packing and Function Prediction
• Local Structure Prediction of Proteins
• Protein Contact Map Prediction
• Modeling Protein Aggregate Assembly and Structure
• Homology-Based Modeling of Protein Structure
• Modeling Protein Structures Based on Density Maps at Intermediate Resolutions.