CURVES+ web server for analyzing and visualizing the helical, backbone and groove parameters of nucleic acid structures

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2011, Pages

  Blanchet, Christophe ^a   Pasi, Marco ^a   Zakrzewska, Krystyna ^a   Lavery, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PURINE; PYRIMIDINE; TATA BINDING PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CLIENT SERVER APPLICATION; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; DNA DENATURATION; DNA HELIX; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; GEOMETRY; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; WEB BROWSER;

ALGORITHMS; BASE PAIRING; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 79959930132     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr316     Document Type: Article

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