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Protein folding in the hydrophobic-hydrophilic (HP) is NP-complete

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                        RECOMB '98: Proceedings of the second annual international conference on Computational molecular biology
                        March 1998
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                        ISBN:0897919769
                        DOI:10.1145/279069

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