A back-propagation neural network predicts absorption maxima of chimeric human red/green visual pigments

Vision Research

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1707-1712

  Robinson, Phyllis R ^a   Griffith, Kevin ^a   Gross, Jeffrey M ^a   O'Neill, Michael C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amino acid sequence; Color perception; Mutagenesis; Photoreceptor; Retinal pigments

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CHIMERIC PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; OPSIN; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CELL STRAIN COS1; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY;

AMINO ACIDS; COLOR PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MUTATION; NERVE NET; OPSIN; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RETINAL PIGMENTS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 0032974425     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(98)00289-2     Document Type: Article

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