Transmembrane helix predictions revisited

Protein Science

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2774-2791

  Chen, Chien Peter ^a   Kernytsky, Andrew ^a   Rost, Burkhard ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Comparing genomes; Computational biology; Multiple alignments, predicting transmembrane helices; Protein structure prediction; Proteomes; Sequence analysis

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEOME;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; EUKARYOTE; HYDROPHOBICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0036893269     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.0214502     Document Type: Article

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