title: Mean-field minimization methods for biological macromolecules.
abstract: Simulations of macromolecular structures involve the minimization of a potential-energy function that presents many local minima. Mean-field theory provides a tool that enables us to escape these minima, by enhancing sampling in conformational space. The number of applications of this technique has increased significantly over the past year, enabling problems with protein-homology modelling and inverted protein structure prediction to be solved.
authors.affiliation: UPR 9003 du CNRS, Ecole Supérieure de Biotechnologie de Strasbourg, France. koehl@bali.u-strasbg.fr
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Koehl
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Delarue
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D003198:Computer Simulation; D008433:Mathematics; D008958:Models, Molecular; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D011487:Protein Conformation; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins