Master equation approach to protein folding and kinetic traps
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Marek Cieplak, Malte Henkel, Jan Karbowski, and Jayanth R. Banavar 1 Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-668 Warsaw, Poland 2 Laboratoire de Physique des Matériaux, Université Henri Poincaré Nancy I, F-54506 Vandœuvre, France 3 Center for Polymer Studies, Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA 4 Department of Physics and Center for Materials Physics, 104 Davey Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
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