Computational Methods for Protein Structure Prediction and Modeling, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2007 Volume 2: Structure Prediction Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering Series

Protein Structure Prediction by Protein Threading.- De Novo Protein Structure Prediction.- Structure Prediction of Membrane Proteins.- Structure Prediction of Protein Complexes.- Structure-Based Drug Design.- Protein Structure Prediction as a Systems Problem.- Resources and Infrastructure for Structural Bioinformatics.

Dr. Ying Xu is Regents-GRA Eminent Scholar and Professor at the University of Georgia.  Dr. Dong Xu is the Director of the Digital Biology Laboratory at the University of Missouri-Columbia.  Dr. Jie Liang is the Director for the Center for Bioinformatics at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Presents a comprehensive overview of protein structure prediction methods Each chapter is a self contained review designed to cover (1) definition of the problem and an historical perspective, (2) mathematical or computational formulation of the problem, (3) computational methods and algorithms, (4) performance results, (5) existing software packages, and (6) strengths, pitfalls, challenges, and future research directions Covers topics from De novo methods of protein structure prediction to structure based drug design