3DNA: A versatile, integrated software system for the analysis, rebuilding and visualization of three-dimensional nucleic-acid structures

Nature Protocols

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1213-1227

  Lu, Xiang Jun ^a,b   Olson, Wilma K ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; NUCLEIC ACID; NUCLEOTIDE; PHOSPHATE; RIBOSOME RNA; SUGAR;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFORMATION; GEOMETRY; HALOARCULA MARISMORTUI; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACIDS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 50349085962     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2008.104     Document Type: Article

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