Milestones in molecular dynamics simulations of RNA systems

Computational Structural Biology: Methods and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 363-399

  Hashem, Y ^a   Westhof, E ^a   Auffinger, P ^a  

^a INST DE BIOL MOLEC ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 84969166496     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1142/9789812778789_0013     Document Type: Chapter

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