title: Geometric problems in molecular biology and robotics.
abstract: Some of the geometric problems of interest to molecular biologists have macroscopic analogues in the field of robotics. Two examples of such analogies are those between protein docking and model-based perception, and between ring closure and inverse kinematics. Molecular dynamics simulation, too, has much in common with the study of robot dynamics. In this paper we give a brief survey of recent work on these and related problems.
authors.affiliation: University of California, Berkeley 94720, USA.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Parsons
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Canny
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003198:Computer Simulation; D006801:Humans; D008967:Molecular Biology; D011487:Protein Conformation; D017510:Protein Folding; D012371:Robotics