Statistical mechanics of protein folding with separable energy functions
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Statistical mechanics of protein folding with separable energy functions.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Biopolymers
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0006-3525,1097-0282
DOI: 10.1002/bip.20077