Improvement of statistical potentials and threading score functions using information maximization

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 892-908

  Solis, Armando D ^a   Rackovsky, S ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Information gain; Information theory; Local potential; Protein structure; Statistical potentials; Threading

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DATABASES, PROTEIN; ENTROPY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 33644842005     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.20501     Document Type: Article

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