Protein knot server: Detection of knots in protein structures

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 35, Issue SUPPL.2, 2007, Pages

  Kolesov, Grigory ^a   Virnau, Peter ^a,b   Kardar, Mehran ^a   Mirny, Leonid A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; INTERNET; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN FOLDING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, PROTEIN; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; INTERNET; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 34547563369     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm312     Document Type: Article

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