A random polymer model of the statistical significance of structure alignment

Journal of Computational Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 298-313

  Jia, Yuting ^a   Dewey, T Gregory ^a  

^a KECK GRADUATE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Extreme value distribution; Gaussian polymer chain; p value; Protein structure alignment; Statistical significance

Indexed keywords

POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODEL; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RANDOMIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY, PROTEIN;

EID: 17844363992     PISSN: 10665277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cmb.2005.12.298     Document Type: Article

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