SplitTester: Software to identify domains responsible for functional divergence in protein family

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Gao, Xiang ^a   Vander Velden, Kent A ^a,b   Voytas, Daniel F ^a   Gu, Xun ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE DUPLICATIONS; NEIGHBOR JOINING; POTENTIAL REGION; PROTEIN SEQUENCES; RANDOM MUTATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASES; SPECIFIC PRIMERS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE;

ALIGNMENT; AMINO ACIDS; BIOLOGY;

PROTEINS;

AMINO ACID; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS ENZYME; PRIMER DNA; PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING; RETROPOSON;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; RETROPOSON; RNA VIRUS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATABASES, PROTEIN; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; RETROELEMENTS; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SOFTWARE;

EID: 25444453179     PISSN: 14712105     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-6-137     Document Type: Article

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