Insights into nucleic acid conformational dynamics from massively parallel stochastic simulations

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 790-803

  Sorin, Eric J ^a   Rhee, Young Min ^a   Nakatani, Bradley J ^a   Pande, Vijay S ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID SYNTHESIS; PHASE TRANSITION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SIMULATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

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EID: 0042845840     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(03)74520-2     Document Type: Article

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