Supercomputing Opportunities For The Protein Sciences

In Protein Folding: Deciphering the Second Half of the Genetic Code, eds. L. M. Gierasch and J. King (AAAS: Washington D.C., 1990).

Synopsis

Protein folding, the self-directed transition from disorganized chains to highly ordered and functional biological structures, is of increasing practical concern for the biotechnology industry and for research on DNA sequences. This volume, based on an AAAS Annual Meeting seminar, emphasizes new interactions between theory and experiment and looks closely at the process of tailoring proteins and their fragments for the testing of folding hypotheses.