P. M. Kasson, A. Zomorodian, S. Park, N. Singhal, L. J. Guibas, and V. S. Pande. Bioinformatics (2007) SUMMARY: One challenge in analyzing membrane fusion pathways is simply characterizing the…
Read moreD. Lucent, V. Vishal, V. S. Pande. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2007) Local PDF SUMMARY: When proteins fold inside a cell, they are frequently subjected to various…
Read moreJ. Chodera, N. Singhal, V. S. Pande, K. Dill, and W. Swope. Journal of Chemical Physics, (2007) SUMMARY: In order to break up calculations to run on Folding@home and then…
Read moreAdam L Beberg and Vijay S. Pande. IPDPS (2007) SUMMARY: Storage@home is a distributed storage infrastructure developed to solve the problem of backing up and sharing petabytes of scientific results…
Read moreSince I’m on the topic of the ribosome, let me talk a bit about another group member working on the ribosome: Paula Petrone. Paula’s background is physics and biophysics. Her…
Read moreNetworking will be upgrading the switches next Thursday 10/11 during their maintenance window between 5am to 6am pacific time. During this period, FAH will experience a network interruption for about…
Read moreRelly Brandman is a graduate student in the Chemical and Systems Biology Department at Stanford. This department was originally called the Molecular Pharmacology Department and it still has a tradition…
Read moreWe’ve been putting a lot of effort into studying the ribosome. The ribosome is particularly important for proteins — it’s where the messenger RNA (mRNA) is converted into proteins, i.e.…
Read moreWhat causes proteins to fold? This is a complex question, but there are some rules of thumb that have been learned especially for how proteins behave in vitro (eg in…
Read moreOne of the remarkable strengths of thermodynamics is that it is in many ways more general than many of the laws of physics. One of the key concepts in thermodynamics…
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