Fast Processes in Protein Folding Dynamics Workshop: March 1992, Puerto Rico

Ralph Roskies和Michael Levine组织了一个关于蛋白质折叠动力学中的快速过程的研讨会。了解蛋白质如何折叠是当今生物学面临的主要挑战之一。直到最近，随着先进计算方法的出现，才有可能模拟蛋白质折叠的动力学。要在生物学中应用理论和计算方法，必须将实验联系起来；今天，技术限制在于相互联系的理论、模拟和实验的方式。讲习班的结构将是：将通常不会出席同一会议的不同学科的科学家聚集在一起，制定解决中心问题或挑战的新方法，在会议之前提出种子问题，以便在整个会议过程中集中讨论，在每一组主要会谈之后留出具体的小组会议，以便能够对可能性和困难进行公开和广泛的讨论。这次会议将有助于为来自几个学科的不同科学家社区制定研究议程。

Ralph Roskies and Michael Levine have organized a workshop on Fast Processes in Protein Folding Dynamics. Understanding how proteins fold is one of the central challenges in biology today. Only recently, with the advent of advanced computational methods, has it been possible to simulate the dynamics of protein folding. To apply theoretical and computational approaches in biology it is essential to link in experimentation; today, technical limitations lie in the way of interlinking theory, simulation, and experiment. The workshop will be structure to develop new approaches to central questions or challenges by bringing together scientists from different disciplines who would ordinarily not attend the same meeting, by developing seed questions in advance of the meeting to focus the discussion throughout the course of the meeting, by setting aside specific panel sessions following each major set of talks to allow open and extensive discussion of possibilities and difficulties. The meeting will help set a research agenda for a diverse community of scientist drawn from several disciplines.