Protein attributes contribute to halo-stability, bioinformatics approach

Saline Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Ebrahimie, Esmaeil ^a   Ebrahimi, Mansour ^b   Sarvestani, Narjes R ^a   Ebrahimi, Mahdi ^c  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QOM   (Iran)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY; ALGORITHM; BIOINFORMATICS; DECIDUOUS TREE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYDROGEN; PROTEIN; SALT;

EID: 79955945598     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17461448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-1448-7-1     Document Type: Article

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