Fishing for folding nuclei in lattice models and proteins

Folding and Design

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 1998, Pages

  Thirumalai, D ^a,b   Klimov, D K ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA HELIX; CELL NUCLEUS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

EID: 0032428359     PISSN: 13590278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-0278(98)00057-1     Document Type: Note

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