A reinforced merging methodology for mapping unique peptide motifs in members of protein families

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Chang, Hao Teng ^a   Pai, Tun Wen ^b   Fan, Tan Chi ^a   Su, Bo Han ^b   Wu, Pei Chih ^b   Tang, Chuan Yi ^a   Chang, Chun Tien ^a   Liu, Shi Hwei ^a   Chang, Margaret Dah Tsyr ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; DIFFERENTIAL FUNCTIONS; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTORS; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASES; MERGING ALGORITHMS; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; STRUCTURAL SURFACES; THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D) STRUCTURES;

BIOINFORMATICS; EPITOPES; MERGING; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES; PEPTIDES;

REINFORCEMENT;

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; EPITOPE; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; RIBONUCLEASE A; SMAD PROTEIN; PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEPTIDE MAPPING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; EVALUATION STUDY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 33144462059     PISSN: 14712105     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-7-38     Document Type: Article

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