Conformational ensembles

In protein chemistry, conformational ensembles, also known as structural ensembles, are models describing the structure of intrinsically unstructured proteins. Such proteins are flexible in nature and cannot be described by a single structural representation. The techniques of ensemble calculation are relatively new on the field of structural biology, and are still facing certain limitations that need to be addressed before it will become comparable to classical structural description methods such as biological macromolecular crystallography.

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