How homologs can help to predict protein folds even though they cannot be predicted for individual sequences

Journal of Computational Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 369-376

  Badretdinov, Azat Ya ^a,b   Finkelstein, Alexei V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PROTEIN RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Averaging of energy parameters; Energy calculations; Errors in energy parameters; Homologs; Protein fold prediction

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENE MUTATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0031752309     PISSN: 10665277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cmb.1998.5.369     Document Type: Conference Paper

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