Planned server outage 2/28

The Stanford networking team will be upgrading some infrastructure this coming Sunday, February 28, 2016, from 12AM – 4AM. This work will be partially  disruptive to where some key FAH content is…

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Insights into Peptoid Helix Folding Cooperativity from an Improved Backbone Potential.

Peptoids (N-substituted oligoglycines) are biomimetic polymers that can fold into a variety of unique structural scaffolds. Peptoid helices, which result from the incorporation of bulky chiral side chains, are a key peptoid structural motif whose formation has not yet been accurately modeled in molecular simulations. Here, we report that a simple modification of the backbone φ-angle potential in GAFF is able to produce well-folded cis-amide helices of (S)-N-(1-phenylethyl)glycine (Nspe), consi…

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