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Virtual Spectroscopy for Fun and Profit

Bio/Technology volume 13, pages 236–238 (1995)Cite this article

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A physicomathematical approach to decoding the relationship between amino acid sequence and protein function may provide a novel way of designing biologically active peptides

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Cosic, I. Virtual Spectroscopy for Fun and Profit. Nat Biotechnol 13, 236–238 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0395-236

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