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NRSAS: Nuclear Receptor Structure Analysis Servers.

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We present a coherent series of servers that can perform a large number of structure analyses on nuclear hormone receptors. These servers are part of the NucleaRDB project, which provides a powerful information system for nuclear hormone receptors. The computations performed by the servers include homology modelling, structure validation, calculating contacts, accessibility values, hydrogen bonding patterns, predicting mutations and a host of two- and three-dimensional visualisations. The Nuclear Receptor Structure Analysis Servers (NRSAS) are freely accessible at http://www.cmbi.kun.nl/NR/servers/html/ and in-house copies can be obtained upon request.

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Emmanuel Bettler, Roland Krause, Florence Horn, Gert Vriend. 2003-07-01. NRSAS: Nuclear Receptor Structure Analysis Servers.. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar%2Fgkg505

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