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Optimization of the Additive CHARMM All-Atom Protein Force Field Targeting Improved Sampling of the Backbone ϕ, ψ and Side-Chain χ1 and χ2 Dihedral Angles

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Reproducible and Sustained Regulation of Gαs Signalling Using a Metazoan Opsin as an Optogenetic Tool

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New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0

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The Magnitude of the Light-induced Conformational Change in Different Rhodopsins Correlates with Their Ability to Activate G Proteins

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Swim pacemakers in box jellyfish are modulated by the visual input

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An Improved General Amino Acid Replacement Matrix

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(2008) Midori Murakami et al.   NATURE

Jellyfish vision starts with cAMP signaling mediated by opsin-Gs cascade

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