Improving the accuracy of PSI-BLAST protein database searches with composition-based statistics and other refinements

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 29, Issue 14, 2001, Pages 2994-3005

  Schaffer A A ^a   Aravind, L ^a   Madden, T L ^a   Shavirin, S ^a   Spouge, J L ^a   Wolf, Y I ^a   Koonin, E V ^a   Altschul, S F ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; PROTEIN;

ACCURACY; AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FAMILY; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; YEAST;

EID: 0035878724     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/29.14.2994     Document Type: Article

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