Prediction of protein secondary structure at better than 70% accuracy

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 232, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 584-599

  Rost, Burkhard ^a   Sander, Chris ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Multiple sequence alignments; Neural network; Protein secondary structure prediction; Secondary structure content

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 0027291015     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1993.1413     Document Type: Article

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