Who's your neighbor? New computational approaches for functional genomics

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 609-613

  Galperin, Michael Y ^a   Koonin, Eugene V ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Clusters of orthologs; Gene sequence; Phylogenetic patterns; Protein, function prediction; Rosetta Stone

Indexed keywords

GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; GENOME; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEINS; SOFTWARE; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0034084865     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/76443     Document Type: Review

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