SCORPION, a molecular database of scorpion toxins

Toxicon

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 23-31

  Srinivasan, K N ^a   Gopalakrishnakone, P ^a   Tan, P T ^b,c   Chew, K C ^b,c   Cheng, B ^b   Kini, R M ^b   Koh, J L Y ^b,c   Seah, S H ^b,c   Brusic, V ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Functional annotation; Homology model; Toxin informatics; Venom informatics

Indexed keywords

SCORPION VENOM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER NETWORK; DATA BASE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INTERNET; LITERATURE; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORPION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TOXIN STRUCTURE;

SCORPIONES;

EID: 0036027943     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(01)00182-9     Document Type: Article

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