Clustering molecular dynamics trajectories: 1. Characterizing the performance of different clustering algorithms

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2312-2334

  Shao, Jianyin ^a   Tanner, Stephen W ^a,b   Thompson, Nephi ^a,c   Cheatham III, Thomas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 36649006642     PISSN: 15499618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ct700119m     Document Type: Article

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