ProfNet, a method to derive profile-profile alignment scoring functions that improves the alignments of distantly related proteins

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Ohlson, Tomas ^a   Elofsson, Arne ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVED RESIDUES; HOMOLOGOUS PROTEINS; NEW FUNCTIONS; SCORING FUNCTIONS; SUBSTITUTION TABLES; TRAINING SETS;

AMINO ACIDS; PROTEINS;

INFORMATION USE;

AMINO ACID; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; DEVICES; PROCEDURES; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC;

MODELS, GENETIC; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PROTEINS; ROC CURVE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 27644455582     PISSN: 14712105     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-6-253     Document Type: Article

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