Fold space unlimited.

Abstract:

:You want to know how proteins do it? Take a walk in protein fold space. More often than not you will get a clue if not the answer. If you know what you are looking for and how to find it. In fact, there is more information than we can presently handle. Charting fold space and chasing its creatures has occupied us for the past decades. There is no end in sight.

journal_name

Curr Opin Struct Biol

authors

Sippl MJ

doi

10.1016/j.sbi.2009.03.010

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2009-06-01 00:00:00

pages

312-20

issue

3

eissn

0959-440X

issn

1879-033X

pii

S0959-440X(09)00041-4

journal_volume

19

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