Modeling the percolation of annotation errors in a database of protein sequences

Bioinformatics

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1641-1649

  Gilks, Walter R ^a   Audit, Benjamin ^b   De Angelis, Daniela ^a,c   Tsoka, Sophia ^b   Ouzounis, Christos A ^b  

^a MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c Public Health Laboratory Service   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE DATABASE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 12244283680     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/18.12.1641     Document Type: Article

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