Collective variable modelling of nucleic acids

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 170-176

  Lafontaine, Ingrid ^a   Lavery, Richard ^a  

^a INST DE BIOLOGIE PHYSICO CHIMIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; NUCLEIC ACID; RNA;

ALGORITHM; CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0033117919     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(99)80024-4     Document Type: Article

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