Improvement of alignment accuracy utilizing sequentially conserved motifs

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Chakrabarti, Saikat ^a   Bhardwaj, Nitin ^b   Anand, Prem A ^c   Sowdhamini, Ramanathan ^a  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^c INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT ACCURACY; ALIGNMENT ALGORITHMS; EVOLUTIONARY TREND; HOMOLOGY MODELLING; ITERATIVE ALGORITHM; ITERATIVE REFINEMENT; MULTIPLE SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT ALGORITHM; STRUCTURE-FUNCTION RELATIONSHIP;

ITERATIVE METHODS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; TOOLS;

ALGORITHMS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ALGORITHM; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; QUALITY CONTROL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; STANDARDS;

GLOBIN; PEPTIDE;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BENCHMARKING; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DATABASES, PROTEIN; GENETIC VARIATION; GLOBINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 13244268369     PISSN: 14712105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-5-167     Document Type: Article

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