Atomic mean-square displacements in proteins by molecular dynamics: a case for analysis of variance

Luca Maragliano1, Grazia Cottone, Lorenzo Cordone

  • 1National Institute for the Physics of Matter and Physics Department, University of Rome, La Sapienza, 00185 Rome, Italy. maragliano.luca@unimo.it

Biophysical Journal
|April 28, 2004
PubMed

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