Comprehensive assessment of automatic structural alignment against a manual standard, the scop classification of proteins

Protein Science

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 445-456

  Gerstein, Mark ^a   Levitt, Michael ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Databank comparison; Molecular evolution; Protein fold; Sequence alignment

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYZER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MODIFICATION;

EID: 0031938039     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pro.5560070226     Document Type: Article

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