Quod erat demonstrandum?The mystery of experimental validation of apparently erroneous computational analyses of protein sequences

Genome Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2001, Pages

  Iyer, Lakshminarayan M ^a   Aravind, L ^a   Bork, Peer ^b   Hofmann, Kay ^c   Mushegian, Arcady R ^d   Zhulin, Igor B ^e   Koonin, Eugene V ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^c Memorec Biotec GmbH   (Germany)

^d STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^e GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaeal Methanogen; Bacterial Orthologs; Computational Prediction; Polysaccharide Hydrolase; Viral Movement Protein

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 2; ACYLTRANSFERASE; AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; ARCHAEAL PROTEIN; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; CYSTEINYL TRANSFER RIBONUCLEIC ACID SYNTHETASE; CYSTEINYL-TRNA SYNTHETASE; DIHYDROPTEROATE SYNTHASE; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; PHYTOCHROME; PIF3 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; PLANT VIRUS MOVEMENT PROTEIN; PROTEIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; FORECASTING; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; ACTIVATING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 2; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; ARTIFACTS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; DIHYDROPTEROATE SYNTHASE; FORECASTING; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYTOCHROME; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT VIRAL MOVEMENT PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0035753660     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2001-2-12-research0051     Document Type: Article

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