Modeling protein synthesis from a physicist's perspective: A toy model

American Journal of Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 931-937

  Basu, Aakash ^a   Chowdhury, Debashish ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

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EID: 35248878892     PISSN: 00029505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1119/1.2757628     Document Type: Article

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