Discovery Through the Computational Microscope

Structure

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1295-1306

  Lee, Eric H ^a   Hsin, Jen ^a,b   Sotomayor, Marcos ^c,d   Comellas, Gemma ^a   Schulten, Klaus ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

PROTEINS

Indexed keywords

ANKYRIN; CADHERIN; CONNECTIN; FIBRINOGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; SPECTRIN;

ACCURACY; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ELASTICITY; FORCE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS;

EID: 70349779536     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2009.09.001     Document Type: Review

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