Colloquium: Geometrical approach to protein folding: A tube picture

Reviews of Modern Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 23-34

  Banavar, Jayanth R ^a   Maritan, Amos ^b,c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SISSA   (Italy)

^c INFM   (Italy)

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EID: 0037847500     PISSN: 00346861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/RevModPhys.75.23     Document Type: Article

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