Contact area difference (CAD): A robust measure to evaluate accuracy of protein models

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 268, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 678-685

  Abagyan, Ruben A ^a   Totrov, Maxim M ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Loop modeling; Modeling by homology; Protein structure prediction; Side chain placement; Structure evaluation

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

EID: 0031560777     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.0994     Document Type: Article

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