International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology

Theoretical Course “Principles of Protein Structure: Theory and Computational Approaches”

2-6 September 1992, Trieste, Italy

Organizers:

• George Nemethy, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, Usa
• Sándor Pongor

Lecturers:

• Werner Braun, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
• Jan Hermans, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
• Akinori Kidera, Protein Engineering Research Institute, Osaka, Japan
• Bernard Maigret, Universit de nancy – 1, Nancy, France
• Gerrit Vriend, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
• Harold Scheraga, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

Topics:

• Protein Folding and Stability
• Computations in Sequence Analysis
• Conformational Energy Computations
• Force Fields
• Multiple-minimum problem
• Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics Simulations
• Computations in X-ray Structure Refinement
• Databases in the Analysis of Protein Structures