The Levinthal paradox: Yesterday and today

Folding and Design

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1997, Pages

  Karplus, Martin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL MODEL; PROTEIN FOLDING; REVIEW;

MODELS, CHEMICAL; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 0030626588     PISSN: 13590278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-0278(97)00067-9     Document Type: Article

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