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Modeling Metal Binding Sites in Proteins by Quantum Chemical Calculations

  1. 1 Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
Computational Chemistry·Volume 02, Issue 2·Pages 19–21·Published 26 March 2014·DOI10.4236/cc.2014.22003
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Modeling Metal Binding Sites in Proteins by Quantum Chemical Calculations

KeywordsModeling MetalQuantum Chemical Calculations
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