Pfam: A comprehensive database of protein domain families based on seed alignments

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 405-420

  Sonnhammer, Erik L L ^a   Eddy, Sean R ^b   Durbin, Richard ^a  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; Classification; Clustering; Genome annotation; Hidden Markov model; Protein domains

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DATA BASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FAMILY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEEDS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0030925920     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0134(199707)28:3<405::AID-PROT10>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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