The fundamentals of protein folding: Bringing together theory and experiment

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 92-101

  Dobson, Christopher M ^a   Karplus, Martin ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTION; ENERGY; EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; REVIEW; THEORY;

EID: 0032842870     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(99)80012-8     Document Type: Article

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