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Applications of Density Functional Theory to Biological and Bioinorganic Chemistry

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We are grateful to the numerous coworkers involved in the deMon Developers consortium for their contributions to the development of the deMon software (http://www.demon-software.com). Operating grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada are gratefully acknowledged as is the provision of ample computational resources from Compute Canada/WestGrid.

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  4. Key Laboratory for Macromolecular Science of Shaanxi Province, School of Chemistry & Materials, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China, 710062

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    Mihai V. Putz

  2. , Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, United Kingdom

    D. Michael P. Mingos

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Salahub, D.R., de la Lande, A., Goursot, A., Zhang, R., Zhang, Y. (2013). Recent Progress in Density Functional Methodology for Biomolecular Modeling. In: Putz, M., Mingos, D. (eds) Applications of Density Functional Theory to Biological and Bioinorganic Chemistry. Structure and Bonding, vol 150. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32750-6_1

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