title: Group theory and biomolecular conformation: I. Mathematical and computational models.
abstract: Biological macromolecules, and the complexes that they form, can be described in a variety of ways ranging from quantum mechanical and atomic chemical models, to coarser grained models of secondary structure and domains, to continuum models. At each of these levels, group theory can be used to describe both geometric symmetries and conformational motion. In this survey, a detailed account is provided of how group theory has been applied across computational structural biology to analyze the conformational shape and motion of macromolecules and complexes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, USA. gregc@jhu.edu
authors.forename: Gregory S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Chirikjian
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D046911:Macromolecular Substances / Q000032:analysis* / Q000737:chemistry; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D008968:Molecular Conformation
chemical_list: D046911:Macromolecular Substances
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