Helix-Formation and Folding as Studied in Generalized-Ensemble Simulations

Studying simple artificial peptides, we show that recently developed simulation techniques enable efficient investigations of secondary structure formation and folding in small peptides. Besides questions of sex and aging that capture not only the interest of Dietrich Stauffer [1], whose 60th birthday is cel-ebrated by this issue of the Brazilian Journal of Physics, many other problems in biology and chemistry are now ad