Automatic prediction of protein function

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2637-2650

  Rost, B ^a   Liu, J ^a   Nair, R ^a,b   Wrzeszczynski, K O ^a   Ofran, Y ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Russ Berrie Pavilion ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Ab initio prediction; Bioinformatics; Genome analysis; Multiple alignments; Neural networks; Post translational modifications; Protein function prediction; Protein protein interactions; Sequence analysis; Subcellular localization

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO CALCULATION; BIOINFORMATICS; CHEMICAL REACTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, PROTEIN; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0346731042     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-003-3114-8     Document Type: Review

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