An in silico exploration of the neutral network in protein sequence space

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 221, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 599-613

  Aita, Takuyo ^a,b,d   Ota, Motonori ^c,e   Husimi, Yuzuru ^b  

^a NOVARTIS PHARMA K K   (Japan)

^b SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^e TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COMPUTER MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

EID: 0037459903     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.2003.3209     Document Type: Article

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