Rknots: Topological analysis of knotted biopolymers with R

Bioinformatics

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1400-1401

  Comoglio, Federico ^a,b   Rinaldi, Maurizio ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOPOLYMER; PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM;

ALGORITHMS; BIOPOLYMERS; PROTEINS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84861147882     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts160     Document Type: Article

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