Advanced Series in Physical Chemistry - Vol. 7
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THEORETICAL STUDIES OF PROTEINS
edited by Ron Elber (Hebrew Univ., Israel)
Experts provide a unique and broad perspective of the theoretical tools available today to analyze protein structure and function. Topics at the frontier of computational biophysics, such as dynamics and thermodynamics of proteins, reaction path studies, optimization techniques, analytical theories of protein folding, sequence alignment algorithms and electrostatics of proteins are discussed in a pedagogical and complete way. Those entering the field will find the book to be a useful introduction. It will also serve as a complementary text to existing ones that focus on just one of the above subjects.
Contents:
- Dynamics and Thermodynamics of Globins (K Kuczera)
- Reaction
Path Studies of Biological Molecules (R Elber)
- Optimization Techniques with Applications to Proteins (J E Straub)
- Analytical Theories of Protein Folding (T Garel, H Orland & D Thirumalai)
- Atomic Biology, Electrostatics, and Ionic Channels (R S Eisenberg)
- The Statistical Mechanical Basis of Sequence Alignment Algorithms for Protein Structure Recognition (R A Goldstein, Z A Luthey-Schulten & P G Wolynes)
Readership: Chemists, biochemists, molecular biologists and biophysicists.
"This book is interesting in that it showcases the efforts of several groups on a broad range of topics ... The issues raised and the topics presented are forward-looking, so the book is probably most useful to investigators who are up to speed with this literature, know the techniques, and are actively participating in the field of protein simulation."
| Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 1998 |
| 412pp |
Pub. date: Dec 1996 |
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