AL2CO: Calculation of positional conservation in a protein sequence alignment

Bioinformatics

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 700-712

  Pei, Jimin ^b   Grishin, Nick V ^a,b  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID;

ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONSTANTS AND COEFFICIENTS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DATA BASE; ENTROPY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUALITY CONTROL; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VARIANCE;

EID: 0034843597     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/17.8.700     Document Type: Article

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