“…There are several experimental methods available for determination of protein secondary structure, such as circular dichroism (CD) (Shanmugam & Polavarapu, 2006), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) , X-ray scattering and diffraction , calorimetry and fluorescence (Gelamo et al, 2002), diffuse reflectance (DR) (Ishida & Griffiths, 1993), electron paramagnetic resonance ESR (Gelamo et al, 2004), Raman (Bolton & Scherer, 1989), near infrared (NIR) (Wu et al, 2000) and IR spectroscopy (Cai & Singh, 1999;Grdadolnik & Maréchal, 2001a& 2001bJackson et al, 1989;Maréchal, 2004Maréchal, & 2003van de Weert et al, 2001;Zhang & Yan, 2005). The last has for many years been a promising technique for the determination of the secondary structure of proteins in that some peptide vibrations are sensitive to conformation (Harris & Chapman, 1992;Jackson & Mantsch, 1995).…”