A novel sensitive method for the detection of user-defined compositional bias in biological sequences

Bioinformatics

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1055-1063

  Kuznetsov, Igor B ^a   Hwang, Seungwoo ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOCHROME C; MYC PROTEIN; PRION PROTEIN; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; SERINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE;

ACCURACY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DNA SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 33646187499     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btl049     Document Type: Article

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