DIAMOD: Display and modeling of DNA bending

Bioinformatics

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 326-331

  Dlakic, Mensur ^a,b   Harrington, Rodney E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; IMAGE DISPLAY; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031874431     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/14.4.326     Document Type: Article

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