Folding by Numbers: Primary Sequence Statistics and Their Use in Studying Protein Folding
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Folding by Numbers: Primary Sequence Statistics and Their Use in Studying Protein Folding
The exponential growth over the past several decades in the quantity of both primary sequence data available and the number of protein structures determined has provided a wealth of information describing the relationship between protein primary sequence and tertiary structure. This growing repository of data has served as a prime source for statistical analysis, where underlying relationships ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Molecular Sciences
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1422-0067
DOI: 10.3390/ijms10041567