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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782498103321

Autore

Wu Zhijun <1956->

Titolo

Lecture notes on computational structural biology [[electronic resource] /] / Zhijun Wu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore ; ; Hackensack, NJ, : World Scientific, c2008

ISBN

1-281-96817-X

9786611968175

981-281-478-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (244 p.)

Disciplina

572.80285

Soggetti

Computational biology

Structural bioinformatics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction. 1.1. Protein structure. 1.2. Structure determination. 1.3. Dynamics simulation. 1.4. The myth of protein folding -- 2. X-ray crystallography computing. 2.1. The phase problem. 2.2. Least squares solutions. 2.3. Entropy maximization. 2.4. Indirect methods -- 3. NMR structure determination. 3.1. Nuclear magnetic resonance. 3.2. Distance geometry. 3.3. Distance-based modeling. 3.4. Structural analysis -- 4. Potential energy minimization. 4.1. Potential energy function. 4.2. Local optimization. 4.3. Global optimization. 4.4. Energy transformation -- 5. Molecular dynamics simulation. 5.1. Equations of motion. 5.2. Initial-value problem. 5.3. Boundary-value problem. 5.4. Normal mode analysis -- 6. Knowledge-based protein modeling. 6.1. Sequence/structural alignment. 6.2. Fold recognition/inverse folding. 6.3. Knowledge-based structural refinement. 6.4. Structural computing and beyond.

Sommario/riassunto

While the field of computational structural biology or structural bioinformatics is rapidly developing, there are few books with a relatively complete coverage of such diverse research subjects studied in the field as X-ray crystallography computing, NMR structure determination, potential energy minimization, dynamics simulation, and knowledge-based modeling. This book helps fill the gap by



providing such a survey on all the related subjects. Comprising a collection of lecture notes for a computational structural biology course for the Program on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at Iow