Incorporating background frequency improves entropy-based residue conservation measures

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Wang, Kai ^a   Samudrala, Ram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND FREQUENCIES; CONSERVATION MEASURES; ENTROPY-BASED METHODS; FUNCTIONAL SITES; MULTIPLE SEQUENCE ALIGNMENTS; RELATIVE ENTROPY; SCORING SCHEMES; SEQUENCE CONSERVATION;

AMINO ACIDS; BIOINFORMATICS; PROTEINS;

ENTROPY;

ACCURACY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTROPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DATABASES, PROTEIN; ENTROPY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

EID: 33748505263     PISSN: 14712105     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-7-385     Document Type: Article

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