Conformational analysis of nucleic acids revisited: Curves+

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 5917-5929

  Lavery, R ^a   Moakher, M ^b   Maddocks, J H ^c   Petkeviciute, D ^c   Zakrzewska, K ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE ET CHIMIE DES PROTÉINES   (France)

^b ENIT LAMSIN   (Tunisia)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID BASE BALANCE; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AXIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HISTOGRAM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; PLOTS AND CURVES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

BASE PAIRING; DNA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; SOFTWARE;

EID: 70450261721     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp608     Document Type: Article

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