Can all heritable biology really be reduced to a single dimension?

Gene

Volumn 578, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 162-168

  Babbitt, Gregory A ^a   Coppola, Erin E ^b   Alawad, Mohammed A ^c   Hudson, André O ^a  

^a ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Rochester Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c Rochester Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; DNA sequencing; Epigenetics; Gene; Genetics; Molecular biology; Molecular dynamics; Mutation; Nucleic acids; Protein structure

Indexed keywords

DNA; PROTEIN;

BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; TRENDS;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84955179096     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: 18790038     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2015.12.043     Document Type: Review

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