Protein structures and optimal folding emerging from a geometrical variational principle
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Cristian Micheletti, Jayanth R. Banavar, Amos Maritan and Flavio Seno 3 (1) INFM and International School for Advanced Studies (S.I.S.S.A.), Via Beirut 2-4, 34014 Trieste, Italy The Abdus Salam Centre for Theoretical Physics Trieste, Italy (2) Department of Physics and Center for Materials Physics, 104 Davey Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802 (3) INFM Dipartimento di Fisica, Via Marzolo, 8 , 35100 Padova, Italy (February 1, 2008)
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