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Protein structure description and prediction

A server for Ramachandran plots and Shape Strings

The empirical Ramachandran plot


a, b Ramachandran's plots (1968) and c, d: our experimental results (Hovmöller et al. 2002).
a and c are alanine, b and d are glycine.

Hovmöller,S., Zhou, T. And Ohlson, T. Conformations of amino acids in proteins. Acta Cryst D58 (2002) 768-776.

A server for Ramachandran plots and Shape Strings

References

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