Quality of alignment comparison by COMPASS improves with inclusion of diverse confident homologs

Bioinformatics

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 818-828

  Sadreyev, Ruslan I ^a   Grishin, Nick V ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN QUALITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 2342423130     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btg485     Document Type: Article

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