The generic geometry of helices and their close-packed structures

Theoretical Chemistry Accounts

Volumn 125, Issue 3-6, 2010, Pages 207-215

  Olsen, Kasper ^a   Bohr, Jakob ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Close packed structures; DNA; Double helix; Helices; Protein structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949269041     PISSN: 1432881X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00214-009-0639-4     Document Type: Article

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