Identifying the tertiary fold of small proteins with different topologies from sequence and secondary structure using the genetic algorithm and extended criteria specific for strand regions

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 256, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 645-660

  Dandekar, Thomas ^a   Argos, Patrick ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Genetic algorithm; Protein folding; Protein structure; Tertiary fold prediction; strands

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

EID: 0029980527     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0115     Document Type: Article

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