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I A Il'icheva1, D Yu Nechipurenko, S L Grokhovsky

  • 1Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vavilov str. 32, Moscow, Russia. grok@imb.ac.ru.

Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics
|October 3, 2009
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