Conrad: A method for identification of variable and conserved regions within proteins by scale-space filtering

Bioinformatics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 197-203

  Herrmann, Gunter ^a   Schon, Annemarie ^b   Brack Werner, Ruth ^b   Werner, Thomas ^c  

^a Institut fur Medizinische Informalik und Syslemforschung   (Germany)

^b Institut fur Molekulare Virologie   (Germany)

^c GSF Forschungs zentrum fur Umwelt und Gesundhcit GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN LAMBDA CHAIN;

ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN VARIANT; VIRUS GENOME;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; HIV ENVELOPE PROTEIN GP120; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LAMBDA-CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SOFTWARE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0029905669     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/12.3.197     Document Type: Article

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