Population statistics of protein structures: Lessons from structural classifications

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 369-376

  Brenner, Steven E ^a,d   Chothia, Cyrus ^b   Hubbard, Tim Jp ^c  

^a NATL INST BIOSCI HUM TECHNOL   (Japan)

^b MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DATA BASE; EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0030983386     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(97)80054-1     Document Type: Article

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