Chapter 7 Empirical Force Fields for Proteins: Current Status and Future Directions

Annual Reports in Computational Chemistry

Volumn 1, Issue C, 2005, Pages 91-102

  MacKerell Jr , Alexander D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF PHARMACY   (United States)

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EID: 77956731325     PISSN: 15741400     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-1400(05)01007-8     Document Type: Review

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