Mathematical Methods for Protein Structure Analysis and Design Advanced Lectures /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Guerra, Concettina (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Istrail, Sorin (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2003.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2003.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics ; 2666
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Algorithms.; Computer science-Mathematics.; Database management.; Computer graphics.; Optical data processing.; Mathematics, general.; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity.; Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science.; Database Management.; Computer Graphics.; Image Processing and Computer Vision.

The papers collected in this volume reproduce contributions by leading sch- arstoaninternationalschoolandworkshopwhichwasorganizedandheldwith thegoaloftakinga snapshotofadiscipline undertumultuous growth. Indeed, the area of protein folding, docking and alignment is developing in response to needs f...

Table of Contents:

• Protein Structure Comparison: Algorithms and Applications
• Spatial Pattern Detection in Structural Bionformatics
• Geometric Methods for Protein Structure Comparison
• Identifying Flat Regions and Slabs in Protein Structures
• OPTIMA: A New Score Function for the Detection of Remote Homologs
• A Comparison of Methods for Assessing the Structural Similarity of Proteins
• Prediction of Protein Secondary Structure at High Accuracy Using a Combination of Many Neural Networks
• Self-consistent Knowledge-Based Approach to Protein Design
• Protein Structure from Solid-State NMR
• Learning Effective Amino-Acid Interactions
• Proteinlike Properties of Simple Models.