A parallel protein surface reconstruction system

International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 221-239

  Merelli, Ivan ^a   Orro, Alessandro ^a   D'Agostino, Daniele ^b   Clematis, Andrea ^b   Milanesi, Luciano ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Connolly volumetric correction; Parallel isosurface extraction; Parallel mesh simplification; Protein modelling

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN F(AB) FRAGMENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATOM; BINDING SITE; GEOMETRY; MACROMOLECULE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 47749120584     PISSN: 17445485     EISSN: 17445493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBRA.2008.019572     Document Type: Article

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