Understanding Conformational Dynamics of Complex Lipid Mixtures Relevant to Biology
Ran Friedman1, Syma Khalid2, Camilo Aponte-Santamaría3,4
1Department of Chemistry and Biomedical Sciences and Centre of Excellence "Biomaterials Chemistry", Linnæus University, Kalmar, Sweden. ran.friedman@lnu.se.
The Journal of Membrane Biology
|October 24, 2018
Abstract:
This is a perspective article entitled "Frontiers in computational biophysics: understanding conformational dynamics of complex lipid mixtures relevant to biology" which is following a CECAM meeting with the same name.
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