Geometric Problems in Molecular Biology and Robotics
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Some of the geometric problems of interest to molecular biologists have macroscopic analogues in the field of robotics. Two examples of such analogies are those between protein docking and model-based perception, and between ring closure and inverse kinematics. Molecular dynamics simulation, too, has much in common with the study of robot dynamics. In this paper we give a brief survey of recent work on these and related problems.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Proceedings. International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology
دوره 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1994