A Family of Evolution-Entropy Hybrid Methods for Ranking Protein Residues by Importance

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 336, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1265-1282

  Mihalek, I ^a   Res I ^a   Lichtarge, O ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Binding interaction; Bioinformatics; Evolutionary trace; Functional site; Information entropy

Indexed keywords

INSULIN RECEPTOR KINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENTROPY; EVOLUTION; HYBRID; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY;

EID: 1242339659     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2003.12.078     Document Type: Article

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