pE-DB: a database of structural ensembles of intrinsically disordered and of unfolded proteins

Mihaly Varadi1, Simone Kosol, Pierre Lebrun

  • 1VIB Department of Structural Biology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Hamburg Unit, EMBL c/o DESY, Hamburg, Germany, CEA, CNRS, UJF-Grenoble 1, Protein Dynamics and Flexibility, Institut de Biologie Structurale Jean-Pierre Ebel, 41 Rue Jules Horowitz, Grenoble 38027, France, Indiana University School of Medicine; Indianapolis, IN, USA, Department of Chemistry, Center of Magnetic Resonance (CERM), University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy, Molecular Structure and Function Program, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Structural Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA, Department of Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel, Department of Molecular Medicine and USF Health Byrd Alzheimer's Research Institute, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA, Institute for Biological Instrumentation, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow Region, Russia, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, Departments of Biological Sciences and Computing Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E8, Canada, Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA Institute of Enzymology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest.

Nucleic Acids Research
|November 1, 2013
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