Embedding strategies for effective use of information from multiple sequence alignments

Protein Science

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 698-705

  Henikoff, Steven ^a   Henikoff, Jorja G ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

consensus sequence; homology searching; multiple sequence alignment; protein blocks; sequence databanks

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FAMILY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030941114     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pro.5560060319     Document Type: Article

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