Computational Methods for Protein Structure Prediction and Modeling - Volume 2: Structure Prediction

Volume 2 of this two-volume sequence focuses on protein structure prediction and includes protein threading, De novo methods, applications to membrane proteins and protein complexes, structure-based drug design, as well as structure prediction as a systems problem. A series of appendices review the biological and chemical basics related to protein structure, computer science for structural informatics, and prerequisite mathematics and statistics.

List of contents

Protein Structure Prediction by Protein Threading.- De Novo Protein Structure Prediction.- Structure Prediction of Membrane Proteins.- Structure Prediction of Protein Complexes.- Structure-Based Drug Design.- Protein Structure Prediction as a Systems Problem.- Resources and Infrastructure for Structural Bioinformatics.

About the author

Dr. Ying Xu is Regents-GRA Eminent Scholar and Professor at the University of Georgia.  Dr. Dong Xu is the Director of the Digital Biology Laboratory at the University of Missouri-Columbia.  Dr. Jie Liang is the Director for the Center for Bioinformatics at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Summary

Volume Two of this two-volume sequence presents a comprehensive overview of protein structure prediction methods and includes protein threading, De novo methods, applications to membrane proteins and protein complexes, structure-based drug design, as well as structure prediction as a systems problem. A series of appendices review the biological and chemical basics related to protein structure, computer science for structural informatics, and prerequisite mathematics and statistics.

Product details

• Authors: Ying Xu
• Assisted by: Jie Liang (Editor), Don Xu (Editor), Dong Xu (Editor), Ying Xu (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.10.2010
• EAN: 9781441922069
• ISBN: 978-1-4419-2206-9
• No. of pages: 322
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 18 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 523 g
• Illustrations: XX, 322 p. 41 illus.
• Series: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering; Biological and Medical Physics; Biological and Medical Physics; Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Biochemistry, biophysics; C, Life Sciences, biochemistry, molecular biology, bioinformatics, Proteomics, Physics and Astronomy, Medical physics, Biophysics, Information technology: general issues, Biological physics, Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics