Recent theoretical and computational advances for modeling protein-ligand binding affinities.

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Published in Adv Protein Chem Struct Biol on January 01, 2011

Authors

Emilio Gallicchio1, Ronald M Levy

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, BioMaPS Institute for Quantitative Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA.

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