Protein Sequence and Structure: Is One More Fundamental than the Other?

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 636-645

  Banavar, Jayanth R ^a   Hoang, T X ^b   Seno, F ^c   Trovato, A ^c   Maritan, A ^c  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Viet Nam)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Marginally compact phase; Phases of matter; Protein native states

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866281813     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10955-012-0456-3     Document Type: Article

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