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To the best of our knowledge, this paper presents the first application of Molecular Dynamics to the Protein Folding Problem using the 3D AB model of proteins. Protein folding pathways are also presented and discussed. This work also offered new reference values for five benchmark sequences. Future works will investigate parallel versions of the presented approach and more experiments to create new bechmarks.
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Benítez, C.M.V., Lopes, H.S. (2012). Molecular Dynamics for Simulating the Protein Folding Process Using the 3D AB Off-Lattice Model. In: de Souto, M.C., Kann, M.G. (eds) Advances in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. BSB 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7409. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31927-3_6
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