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Implementation of occupied and virtual Edmiston-Ruedenberg orbitals using Cholesky decomposed integrals. Folkestad SD, Matveeva R et al. J Chem Theory Comput. 2022 Aug 9;18(8):4733-4744.
Integrative genome modeling platform reveals essentiality of rare contact events in 3D genome organizations. Boninsegna L, Yildirim A et al. Nat Methods. 2022 Aug;19(8):938-949.
Membrane-anchored HDCR nanowires drive hydrogen-powered CO2 fixation. Dietrich HM, Righetto RD et al. Nature. 2022 Jul 28;607(7920):823-830.
Fusion protein strategies for cryo-EM study of G protein-coupled receptors. Zhang K, Wu H et al. Nat Commun. 2022 Jul 28;13(1):4366.
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