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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik

DY 2: Statistical physics in biological systems I (joint session DY/BP)

DY 2.6: Talk

Monday, March 23, 2009, 12:15–12:30, ZEU 255

Funnels in energy landscapes — •Konstantin Klemm¹, Christoph Flamm², and Peter Florian Stadler^1,2 — ¹Bioinformatics Group, Leipzig University, Germany — ²Theoretical Chemistry Group, University of Vienna, Austria

Local minima and the saddle points separating them in the energy landscape are known to dominate the dynamics of biopolymer folding. Here we introduce a notion of a folding funnel that is concisely defined in terms of energy minima and saddle points, while at the same time conforming to a notion of a folding funnel as it is discussed in the protein folding literature.