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-Backboner is a Julia package that offers a set of types and functions for working with molecular *backbones*: defined here as a continuous chain of bonded atoms. The package provides a variety of different types for representing backbones:
+Backboner is a Julia package that offers a set of types and functions for working with molecular *backbones*: defined here as continuous chains of bonded atoms. The package provides a variety of different types for representing backbones:
 - `Backbone`: a type containing a 3xN matrix of coordinates
 - `ChainedBonds`: a type that holds vectors of bond lengths, bond angles, and dihedral angles
 - `Frames`: a collection of rotations and translations (e.g. for representing orientations and locations of protein residues)