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Looking for info on hamiltonians for proteins.

Hawley K. Rising III rising at crl.com
Thu Aug 17 22:01:14 EST 1995


Don Steiger (dons at cs.missouri.edu) wrote:
: I am a PhD. Student in Math and I have recently been doing some work on  
: numerical integration of hamiltonian systems.  I would eventually like to try  
: to integrate a hamiltonian for some large molecule such as a protein.  I have  
: to admit that at this point I don't even know if such a project is practical.   
: If anyone has any good references that discusses hamiltonians for large (or  
: small) molecules or any other related information and/or advice I would  
: appreciate hearing from you.

Excuse me for asking this, but I assume when you say the Hamiltonian of a
large molecule you intend to look at the molecule as a problem in many degrees
of freedom with some constraints.  Why is this necessarily integrable?

Hawley Rising
rising at a.crl.com
rising at crl.com







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