Prediction of β-turns in proteins using the first-order Markov models

Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 123-133

  Lin, Thy Hou ^a   Wang, Ging Ming ^a   Wang, Yen Tseng ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CORRELATION METHODS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBABILITY;

PROTEINS;

PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS;

EID: 0036025429     PISSN: 00952338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ci0103020     Document Type: Article

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