| Abstract: | Various methods are used to surmount the multiple-minima problem that is encountered in the multidimensional conformational energy surface of a polypeptide. A summary is given here of two of these methods: (i) The build-up procedure that is modified to include statistical data on the positional frequencies of occurrence of amino acid residues along the chain, and (ii) the diffusion equation method that smoothes out the potential surface, leaving only the potential well containing the global minimum. |
