In quest of an empirical potential for protein structure prediction

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 166-171

  Skolnick, Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; PROTEOME;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMPIRICISM; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

ALGORITHMS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS;

EID: 33646011728     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2006.02.004     Document Type: Review

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