Stereochemical quality of protein structure coordinates

@article{Morris1992StereochemicalQO,
  title={Stereochemical quality of protein structure coordinates},
  author={A. Louise Morris and Malcolm W Macarthur and E. Gail Hutchinson and Janet M. Thornton},
  journal={Proteins: Structure},
  year={1992},
  volume={12}
}
Methods have been developed to assess the stereochemical quality of any protein structure both globally and locally using various criteria. Several parameters can be derived from the coordinates of a given structure. Global parameters include the distribution of ϕ,ψ and χ1 torsion angles, and hydrogen bond energies. There are clear correlations between these parameters and resolution; as the resolution improves, the distribution of the parameters becomes more clustered. These features show a… 
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