Predicting type-I (Rate-Shift) functional divergence of protein sequences and applications in functional genomics

Current Genomics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 87-96

  Gu, Xun ^a   Wang, Yufeng ^a   Gu, Jianying ^a   Velden, Kent V ^a   Xu, Dongping ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amino Acid Residues; Caspases; Cluster Specific Functional Divergence; JAK Proteins; Mitochondria Genes; Vertebrate Mitochondrial Genomes

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CASPASE; JANUS KINASE;

COMPUTER PROGRAM; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 33746869721     PISSN: 13892029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138920206777304623     Document Type: Review

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