Macromolecular Modeling Blog ™

A beautiful post by Michael Clarkson on a beautiful work by himself and friends, published in Nature. It’s always nice when a fellow blogger gets to present his own work. Post is re-blogged as is from “Discount Thoughts”.

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Incorporation of flexibility into docking simulations and accounting for backbone conformational changes during association is probably the toughest problem protein-protein dockers are facing today. Normal Mode Analysis is lately the answer of many groups to this problem. We hereby review two approaches of incorporating NMA into docking simulations, reflecting the induced fit vs. conformational sampling association mechanisms. 

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