Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
Biomolecules. 2022 Oct 4;12(10):1425. doi: 10.3390/biom12101425.
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