Structural genomics: keeping up with expanding knowledge of the protein universe

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 347-353

  Grabowski, Marek ^a   Joachimiak, Andrzej ^b   Otwinowski, Zbyszek ^c   Minor, Wladek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DATA BASE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; DATABASES, PROTEIN; GENOMICS; HUMANS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS;

EID: 34347393442     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2007.06.003     Document Type: Review

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