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Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Molecular Simulation

Replica-exchange molecular dynamics simulation for understanding the initial process of amyloid peptide aggregation

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Pages 1041-1044 | Received 29 May 2014, Accepted 20 Jun 2014, Published online: 15 Sep 2014

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