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Bio-molecular shapes and algebraic structures.

C Reidys·P F Stadler
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Shapes of biological macromolecules--RNA, DNA, and proteins--can be represented by abstract algebraic structures provided that a suitably coarse resolution is chosen. These abstract structures, for instance partially ordered sets and permutation groups, can be used for deriving new metric distances between bimolecular shapes and for proving surprising theorems on sequence-structure relations.

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C Reidys, P F Stadler. 1996. Bio-molecular shapes and algebraic structures.. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0097-8485(96)80010-6

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