The PRALINE online server: Optimising progressive multiple alignment on the web

Computational Biology and Chemistry

Volumn 27, Issue 4-5, 2003, Pages 511-519

  Simossis, V A ^a,b   Heringa, J ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Multiple sequence alignment; Positional reliability; PRALINE; Profile pre processing; Secondary structure guided MSA

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACIDS; DNA SEQUENCES; HYDROPHOBICITY; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SERVERS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

MULTIPLE SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT (MSA);

BIOCHEMISTRY;

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

INTERNET; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 0344466585     PISSN: 14769271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2003.09.002     Document Type: Note

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