Exhaustive assignment of compositional bias reveals universally prevalent biased regions: Analysis of functional associations in human and Drosophila

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Harrison, Paul M ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID RESIDUES; DNA-BINDING DOMAIN; FUNCTIONAL ASSOCIATIONS; FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURES; REGIONS OF INTEREST; STRUCTURAL GENOMICS;

AMINO ACIDS; MAMMALS; TRANSCRIPTION;

PROTEINS;

AMINO ACID; DNA; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA BINDING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HUMAN; INVERTEBRATE; MAMMAL; METAZOON; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN DEFECT; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEOMICS; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOUSE; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; PROCEDURES; RAT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL BIAS;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; METAZOA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HUMANS; MICE; PROTEOME; RATS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

EID: 33750345803     PISSN: 14712105     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-7-441     Document Type: Article

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