Accurate flexible fitting of high-resolution protein structures into cryo-electron microscopy maps using coarse-grained pseudo-energy minimization

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 478-488

  Zheng, Wenjun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

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EID: 78751682350     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2010.12.3680     Document Type: Article

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