ARIAweb: a server for automated NMR structure calculation.
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SUBMITTER: Allain F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7319541 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul
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ARIAweb: a server for automated NMR structure calculation.
Allain Fabrice F Mareuil Fabien F Ménager Hervé H Nilges Michael M Bardiaux Benjamin B
Nucleic acids research 20200701 W1
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a method of choice to study the dynamics and determine the atomic structure of macromolecules in solution. The standalone program ARIA (Ambiguous Restraints for Iterative Assignment) for automated assignment of nuclear Overhauser enhancement (NOE) data and structure calculation is well established in the NMR community. To ultimately provide a perfectly transparent and easy to use service, we designed an online user interface to ARIA with additiona ...[more]
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