Mathematical virology: A novel approach to the structure and assembly of viruses

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1849, 2006, Pages 3357-3373

  Twarock, Reidun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Caspar Klug theory; Coxeter groups; Quasicrystals; Viral tiling theory; Virus structure and assembly

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845629453     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2006.1900     Document Type: Article

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