Nonempirical calculations of a hydrated RNA duplex

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 118, Issue 36, 1996, Pages 8710-8712

  Hutter, Jürg ^a   Carloni, Paolo ^b,c   Parrinello, Michele ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^b IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; HYDRATION; RNA STRUCTURE; THEORY;

EID: 0029845690     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja9612209     Document Type: Article

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