Exploring the functional landscape of biomolecular machines via elastic network normal mode analysis

Molecular Machines in Biology: Workshop of the Cell

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 59-77

  Arora, Karunesh ^a   Brooks, Charles L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139003704.006     Document Type: Chapter

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