Predicting functions from protein sequences - Where are the bottlenecks?

Nature Genetics

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 313-318

  Bork, Peer ^a,b   Koonin, Eugene V ^c  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DATA BASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENE ISOLATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MARKER GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0031897589     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0498-313     Document Type: Review

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