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A central partition of molecular conformational space. I. Basic structures

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 نشر من قبل Jacques Gabarro-Arpa
 تاريخ النشر 2002
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On the basis of empirical evidence from molecular dynamics simulations, molecular conformational space can be described by means of a partition of central conical regions characterized by the dominance relations between cartesian coordinates. This work presents a geometric and combinatorial description of this structure.

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