Beyond terrestrial biology: Charting the chemical universe of α-amino acid structures

Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2851-2862

  Meringer, Markus ^a   Cleaves II, H James ^b,c,d,e   Freeland, Stephen J ^f  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^d BLUE MARBLE SPACE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (United States)

^e GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL LIBRARIES; GRAPH THEORY; LIBRARIES; PROTEINS; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION);

ALPHA-AMINO ACIDS; BIOLOGICAL PROTEINS; BUILDING BLOCKES; CELLS CONSTRUCTS; COMBINATORIAL PROPERTIES; ORGANIC MOLECULES; PRECISE DEFINITION; VIRTUAL LIBRARIES;

AMINO ACIDS;

AMINO ACID; PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; STEREOISOMERISM;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACIDS; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMANS; PROTEINS; SOFTWARE; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 84888621978     PISSN: 15499596     EISSN: 1549960X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ci400209n     Document Type: Article

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