Computational identification of strain-, species- and genus-specific proteins

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Mazumder, Raja ^a   Natale, Darren A ^a   Murthy, Sudhir ^b   Thiagarajan, Rathi ^a   Wu, Cathy H ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DCWASA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL IDENTIFICATION; MANUAL ANALYSIS; PROPHAGES; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN IDENTIFICATION; QUERY PROTEINS; SHORT SEQUENCES; WATER-BORNE PATHOGENS;

QUERY PROCESSING;

PROTEINS;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TAXONOMY; BACTERIA; BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENETICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PROCEDURES; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ALGORITHMS; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PROTEINS; SOFTWARE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 28544448786     PISSN: 14712105     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-6-279     Document Type: Article

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