Abstract
SHS investigation development is considered from the geographical and historical viewpoint. 3 stages are described. Within Stage 1 the work was carried out in the Department of the Institute of Chemical Physics in Chernogolovka where the scientific discovery had been made. At Stage 2 the interest to SHS arose in different cities and towns of the former USSR. Within Stage 3 SHS entered the international scene. Now SHS processes and products are being studied in more than 50 countries.
Abstract
The consideration of protein molecules as graphs whose nodes and edges are respectively the aminoacid residues and the non covalent contacts between them permits to develop very effective models of protein behavior. The network paradigm not only allows for a drastic reduction of the amount of information needed to represent a protein 3D structure, but provides a set of quantitative descriptors derived from mathematical graph theory endowed with crucial information as for protein biological role. Here we will briefly comment about the relevance of graph descriptors in registering the relevant features of the molecular dynamics of solvation process and sketch the possibility to consider contact map as the ‘macromolecular’ analogue of small organic molecules structural formula.
Keywords:
Protein contact maps, systems biology, chemo-informatics, computational biology, molecular dynamics.
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