The presence of signal peptide significantly affects transmembrane topology prediction

Bioinformatics

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1562-1566

  Lao, Demelo M ^a,b   Arai, Masafumi ^a,b   Ikeda, Masami ^a,b   Shimizu, Toshio ^a,b  

^a HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b IWATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ACCURACY; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE DATABASE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036947980     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/18.12.1562     Document Type: Article

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