Consensus sequences improve PSI-BLAST through mimicking profile-profile alignments

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2238-2246

  Przybylski, Dariusz ^a   Rost, Burkhard ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT;

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE SEQUENCE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; EVALUATION; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SOFTWARE;

EID: 34249857267     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm107     Document Type: Article

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