Testing the potential for computational chemistry to quantify biophysical properties of the non-proteinaceous amino acids

Astrobiology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 606-624

  Lu, Yi ^a   Freeland, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amino acid alphabet; Evolution; Quantitative structure property relationships

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; BIOLOGY; BIOPHYSICS; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

AMINO ACIDS; BIOGENESIS; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXOBIOLOGY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 33750137475     PISSN: 15311074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ast.2006.6.606     Document Type: Article

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