Integrated web service for improving alignment quality based on segments comparison

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Plewczynski, Dariusz ^a,b   Rychlewski, Leszek ^a   Ye, Yuzhen ^c   Jaroszewski, Lukasz ^d   Godzik, Adam ^c,d  

^a BIOINFOBANK INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fragments library (FRAGlib); Library of protein motifs; Network matching problem; Predicted Local Structure Segments (PLSSs); Profile profile sequence similarity (BLAST, FFAS); Segment Alignment (SEA)

Indexed keywords

FRAGMENTS LIBRARY (FRAGLIB); LOCAL STRUCTURE; MATCHING PROBLEMS; PROTEIN MOTIFS; SEGMENT ALIGNMENT (SEA); SEQUENCE SIMILARITY;

ALGORITHMS; BIOINFORMATICS; FORECASTING; QUERY PROCESSING; WEB SERVICES;

PROTEINS;

AMINO ACID; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER NETWORK; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC SIMILARITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; ONLINE SYSTEM; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUALITY CONTROL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN DATABASE; STANDARDS;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, PROTEIN; INTERNET; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOFTWARE;

EID: 13244271359     PISSN: 14712105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-5-98     Document Type: Article

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