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BROWNIAN DYNAMICS SIMULATION OF MACROMOLECULE DIFFUSION IN A PROTOCELL. 原始细胞中大分子扩散的布朗动力学模拟。

Quantum bioinformatics IV : from quantum information to bio-informatics : Tokyo University of Science, Japan, 10-13 March 2010 Pub Date : 2011-01-01 DOI: 10.1142/9789814343763_0032

Tadashi Ando, Jeffrey Skolnick

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