Toward more meaningful hierarchical classification of protein three- dimensional structures

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 20-29

  May, Alex C W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clustering; Protein fold; Protein structure similarity measure; Tree diagram; Validation

Indexed keywords

GLOBIN; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RELIABILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0033214429     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0134(19991001)37:1<20::AID-PROT3>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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