FoldAmyloid: A method of prediction of amyloidogenic regions from protein sequence

Bioinformatics

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 326-332

  Garbuzynskiy, Sergiy O ^a   Lobanov, Michail Yu ^a   Galzitskaya, Oxana V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PROTEIN RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 77949532822     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp691     Document Type: Article

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