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Encyclopedia of Life Sciences

Last updated: 3 Feb 2010

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- Nucleic Acids: Structural Biology
- Protein Interactions
- Proteins: Methods
- Solvent Effects on Macromolecules
- X‑ray Crystallography
- Amino Acid Side-chain Hydrophobicity
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- Amino Acid Substitutions: Effects on Protein Stability
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- ATP-binding Motifs
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- Biological Data Centres
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- Biological Macromolecules: UV-visible Spectrophotometry
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- BLAST Algorithm
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- Confocal Laser Scanning Light Microscopy
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- Deconvolution Fluorescence Light Microscopy
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- Differential Interference Contrast Light Microscopy
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- Dynamic Programming
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- EF-hand Calcium-binding Proteins
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- Electron Cryomicroscopy
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- Electron Cryomicroscopy and Three-dimensional Computer Reconstruction of Biological Molecules
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- Electronic and Computer Image Enhancement in Light Microscopy
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- Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) and Spin-labelling
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- FASTA Algorithm
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- Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer
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- Fluorescence Spectrophotometry
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- Fluorescent Analogues in Biological Research
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- Forkhead Domains
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- Fourier Transform IR
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- Genome, Proteome, and the Quest for a Full Structure�Function Description of an Organism
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- Genome Databases
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- Genome Sequence Analysis
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- Global Alignment
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- Helical Imperative: Paradigm of Form and Function
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- Hydrogen Bonds in Proteins: Role and Strength
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- Immuno-electron Microscopy
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- Immunoglobulin Fold: Structures of Proteins in the Immunoglobulin Superfamily
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- Leucine Zipper
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- Leucine Zippers
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- Light Microscopy � Brightfield and Darkfield Illumination
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- Macromolecular Structure Determination: Comparison of Crystallography and NMR
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- Mass Measurements by Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy
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- Mass Spectrometry: Analysis of Two-dimensional Protein Gels
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- Mass Spectrometry: Peptide Sequencing
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- Metabolic Pathway Databases
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- Mining Biological Databases
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- Molecular Dynamics
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- Molten Globule
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- Multidomain Proteins
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- Multiple Alignment
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- Neutron Diffraction
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- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR): Solid State
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- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy: Structural Analysis of Proteins and Nucleic Acids
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- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy for Monitoring Molecular Dynamics in Solution
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- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy in the Study of Whole-animal Metabolism
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- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy of Proteins
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- Nucleic Acids: Thermal Stability and Denaturation
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- Optical Mapping
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- Optical Tweezers
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- Peptidylproline cis�trans-Isomerases
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- Phase Problem in X-ray Crystallography, and Its Solution
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- Polarized Light Microscopy
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- Primary Protein and Nucleic Acid Three-dimensional Structure Databases
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- Profile Searching
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- Proline Residues in Proteins
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- Protein Databases
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- Protein Denaturation and the Denatured State
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- Protein Disulfide Isomerases
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- Protein Folding: Overview of Pathways
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- Protein Isoforms and Isozymes
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- Protein Motifs: the Helix-Loop-Helix Motif
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- Protein�Nucleic Acid Interaction: Major Groove Recognition Determinants
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- Protein Quaternary Structure: Subunit�Subunit Interactions
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- Protein Secondary Structures: Prediction
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- Protein Sequence Databases
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- Protein Structural Flexibility: Molecular Motions
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- Protein Structure
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- Protein Structure: Unusual Covalent Bonds
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- Protein Structure Prediction and Databases
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- Protein Unfolding and Denaturants
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- Resonance Raman Spectroscopy
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- Ribosomes and Ribosomal Proteins
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- Sedimentation
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- Signal Peptides
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- Single-molecule Light Microscopy
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- Small-angle Scattering of Neutrons and X-rays
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- Smith�Waterman Algorithm
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- Structural Databases of Biological Macromolecules
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- Structural Genomics
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- Transmembrane Domains
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- Transmission Electron Microscopy: Preparation of Specimens
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- Two-dimensional Electron Crystallography
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- Two-photon Fluorescence Light Microscopy
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- X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy
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