Lattice representations of proteins

In tire simple version of tire lattice representation of proteins tire polypeptide chain is modelled as a sequence of connected beads. The beads are confined to tire sites of a suitable lattice. Most of tire studies have used tire cubic lattice. To satisfy tire excluded volume condition only one bead is allowed to occupy a lattice site. If all tire beads are identical we have a homopolymer model the characteristics of which on lattices have been extensively studied. 

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