Improving the quality of protein structure models by selecting from alignment alternatives

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Sommer, Ingolf ^a   Toppo, Stefano ^b   Sander, Oliver ^a   Lengauer, Thomas ^a   Tosatto, Silvio C E ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MODEL QUALITY ASSESSMENTS; NATIVE STRUCTURES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE PREDICTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURES; SCORING FUNCTIONS; TARGET SEQUENCES; TEMPLATE STRUCTURES; WILCOXON SIGNED RANK TEST;

PROTEINS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

ALIGNMENT;

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DATABASE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, PROTEIN; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

EID: 33749344929     PISSN: 14712105     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-7-364     Document Type: Article

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