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Despite its apparent simplicity the “Ramachandran map” has been an enormously successful tool for describing and understanding protein structure. Thirty-five years after its invention, it is still used daily for checking the quality of experimental and modeled protein structures. It is, moreover, founded on a rational, reduced-coordinate model of the polypeptide chain which continues to be useful in computational attempts at predicting protein folding.
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Received: 26 February 1999 / Accepted: 16 March 1999 / Published online: 21 June 1999
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Lavery, R. Perspective on “Stereochemistry of polypeptide chain conformations”. Theor Chem Acc 103, 257–258 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002149900022
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