The benefits of atomic resolution

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 681-688

  Dauter, Zbigniew ^a   Lamzin, Victor S ^b   Wilson, Keith S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; WATER;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; COMPUTER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIGAND BINDING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

EID: 0030778007     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(97)80078-4     Document Type: Article

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