Enhanced functional annotation of protein sequences via the use of structural descriptors

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 134, Issue 2-3, 2001, Pages 232-245

  Di Gennaro, Jeannine A ^a   Siew, Naomi ^b,d   Hoffman, Brian T ^a   Zhang, Li ^b,e   Skolnick, Jeffrey ^c   Neilson, Lorna I ^a   Fetrow, Jacquelyn S ^a  

^a Geneformatics Inc   (United States)

^b SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^d BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacillus subtilis; Bioinformatics; Disulfide oxidoreductase; Drosophila melanogaster; FFF (fuzzy functional form); Functional annotation; Protein function prediction; Protein tyrosine phosphatase; Structural genomics

Indexed keywords

OXIDOREDUCTASE; PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOCHEMISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0035782660     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jsbi.2001.4391     Document Type: Article

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