Prediction of partial membrane protein topologies using a consensus approach

Protein Science

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2974-2980

  Nilsson, Johan ^a,b   Persson, Bengt ^a,b   Von Heijne, Gunnar ^a,c  

^a Stockholm Bioinformatics Center   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Consensus prediction; Membrane protein; Topology

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ALPHA HELIX; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CODE; GENOME; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; GENOME; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 0036891703     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.0226702     Document Type: Article

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