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Student Prize Articles

Title

Characterizing the Flexibility of the Body's Building Block: Collagen

Authors

Alaa Al-Shaer - Simon Fraser University
Aaron Lyons - University of Alberta
Nancy R. Forde - Simon Fraser University

Abstract

This article investigates the structural impact
of local sequence variations along the contour
of collagen, by sampling AFM-based
images and performing statistical analyses.