Principal Investigator

A E Torda Inorganic Chemistry, RSC, ANU

Project Title

Development and Application of Protein Fold Recognition Force Fields

Brief Description for General Publications

The composition (sequence) of a protein is easy to find experimentally, but not as exciting as its shape or arrangement of its atoms in space. This structural information is more difficult and expensive to find experimentally, but potentially more useful for designing drugs or understanding the atomic mechanism of proteins. We are active participants in the sport of trying to guess protein structure from sequence information. This alone would also lead to a dreary existence, unless one finds interesting applications for the techniques developed along the way.