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An Introduction to Structural Phylogenetics for Biomedical Sciences.

2026 · Methods in molecular biology · Vol 3062, pp. 73-97 · 0 citations
Medicine

TL;DR

This chapter serves as a user-friendly practical tutorial for conducting structural phylogenetic analyses using accessible and computationally efficient tools, using synaptotagmins-calcium-sensing proteins essential for synaptic vesicle fusion-as a running example.

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