ChloroP, a neural network-based method for predicting chloroplast transit peptides and their cleavage sites

Protein Science

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 978-984

  Emanuelsson, Olof ^a   Nielsen, Henrik ^a,b   Von Heijne, Gunnar ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Chloroplast; Cleavage site; Neural networks; Protein sorting; Transit peptide

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE; PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; GENOME; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 0032935861     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.8.5.978     Document Type: Article

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