Polarizable atomic multipole-based AMOEBA force field for proteins

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 4046-4063

  Shi, Yue ^a   Xia, Zhen ^a   Zhang, Jiajing ^a   Best, Robert ^b   Wu, Chuanjie ^c   Ponder, Jay W ^c   Ren, Pengyu ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84884194561     PISSN: 15499618     EISSN: 15499626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ct4003702     Document Type: Article

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