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J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 63, pp. 3945-3949 (1994) [5 Pages]
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Sampling Ground-State Configurations of a Peptide by Multicanonical Annealing

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1Konrad Zuse Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin (ZIB) 10711 Berlin, Germany2Department of Physics, Nara Women's University, Nara 630

We test a variant of the multicanonical method, multicanonical annealing , to determine the ground-state configuration of biological molecules. As a simple example, we study Met-enkephalin, one of the simplest peptides. Our results are compared with those of simulated annealing .

©1994 The Physical Society of Japan

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