EFICAz: A comprehensive approach for accurate genome-scale enzyme function inference

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 32, Issue 21, 2004, Pages 6226-6239

  Tian, Weidong ^a,b   Arakaki, Adrian K ^a   Skolnick, Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FOOTPRINTING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, PROTEIN; ENZYMES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 13444280436     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh956     Document Type: Article

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