Prediction of transmembrane segments in proteins utilising multiplesequence alignments

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 237, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 182-192

  Persson, Bengt ^a,b   Argos, Patrick ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Membrane proteins; Multiple alignment; Protein structure prediction; Transmembrane helices

Indexed keywords

EID: 0028279520     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1994.1220     Document Type: Editorial

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