PSI-BLAST-ISS: An intermediate sequence search tool for estimation of the position-specific alignment reliability

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Margelevičius, Mindaugas ^a   Venclovas, Česlovas ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION; FUNCTIONAL FEATURES; HOMOLOGOUS SEQUENCES; INDIVIDUAL SEQUENCES; MULTIPLE SEQUENCE ALIGNMENTS; PROTEIN SEQUENCE ALIGNMENTS; RELIABILITY ASSESSMENTS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENTS;

PROTEINS; TOOLS;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNET; PERFORMANCE; RELIABILITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEM; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDS;

INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERNET; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 25444458541     PISSN: 14712105     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-6-185     Document Type: Article

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