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Published on: March 2, 2020

Michel Masella1, Daniel Borgis, Philippe Cuniasse

  • 1Laboratoire de Chimie du Vivant, Service d'ingénierie moléculaire des protéines, Institut de biologie et de technologies de Saclay, Commissariat à l'énergie atomique, Centre de Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France. michel.masella@cea.fr

Journal of Computational Chemistry
|February 6, 2013
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