Statistical potential for assessment and prediction of protein structures

Protein Science

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2507-2524

  Shen, Min Yi ^a,b   Sali, Andrej ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative or homology modeling; Model assessment; Protein structure prediction; Statistical potential

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ATOM; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SCORING SYSTEM;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33749578940     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: 1469896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.062416606     Document Type: Article

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