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VIPERdb²: an enhanced and web API enabled relational database for structural virology.
Mauricio Carrillo-Tripp, Craig M. Shepherd, Ian A. Borelli, Sangita Venkataraman, Gabriel Lander, Padmaja Natarajan, John E. Johnson, Charles L. Brooks, III and Vijay S. Reddy
Nucleic Acid Research 37, D436-D442 (2009); doi: 10.1093/nar/gkn840
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Explore the virus protein structure in 3D space using the JSmol App. Once in the Info Page of a particular entry, open the "3D IAU" Tab. [Javascript required]

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