Computational Methods For Protein Structure Prediction And Modeling

Download or read book Computational Methods for Protein Structure Prediction and Modeling written by Ying Xu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-08-24 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume One of this two-volume sequence focuses on the basic characterization of known protein structures, and structure prediction from protein sequence information. Eleven chapters survey of the field, covering key topics in modeling, force fields, classification, computational methods, and structure prediction. Each chapter is a self contained review covering definition of the problem and historical perspective; mathematical formulation; computational methods and algorithms; performance results; existing software; strengths, pitfalls, challenges, and future research.