Structural genomics and its importance for gene function analysis

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 283-287

  Skolnick, Jeffrey ^a   Fetrow, Jacquelyn S ^b   Kolinski, Andrzej ^a,c  

^a DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b GeneFormatics   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Functional motifs; Protein folding; Protein function prediction; Structural genomics; Threading

Indexed keywords

GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TECHNOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; HUMANS; INTERNET; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PROTEIN FOLDING; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0034060287     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/73723     Document Type: Review

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