CompASM: An Amber-VMD alanine scanning mutagenesis plug-in

Theoretical Chemistry Accounts

Volumn 131, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1-7

  Ribeiro, João V ^a   Cerqueira, Nuno M F S A ^a   Moreira, Irina S ^a   Fernandes, Pedro A ^a   Ramos, Maria João ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Amber; MMPBSA; Protein protein interactions; Software; VMD

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866688979     PISSN: 1432881X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00214-012-1271-2     Document Type: Article

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