Do aligned sequences share the same fold?

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 273, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 355-368

  Abagyan, Ruben A ^a   Batalov, Serge ^a  

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

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Fold recognition; Modeling by homology; Protein structure prediction; Sequence alignment

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0031576355     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.1287     Document Type: Article

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