Quantification of the variation in percentage identity for protein sequence alignments

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Raghava, G P S ^b,c   Barton, Geoffrey J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROBIAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT ALGORITHMS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; METHOD OF CALCULATION; PROTEIN SEQUENCE ALIGNMENTS; RANDOMIZED SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENTS; STRUCTURAL SIMILARITY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE;

PROTEINS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHMS;

PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DATABASE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, PROTEIN; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOFTWARE;

EID: 33749587566     PISSN: 14712105     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-7-415     Document Type: Article

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