Lecture Notes on Computational Structural Biology

Download or read book Lecture Notes on Computational Structural Biology written by Zhijun Wu and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2008 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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