Surveying the manifold divergence of an entire protein class for statistical clues to underlying biochemical mechanisms.

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Published in Stat Appl Genet Mol Biol on August 04, 2011

Authors

Andrew F Neuwald1

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1: The University of Maryland, MD, USA.

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