Grouping of amino acids and recognition of protein structurally conserved regions by reduced alphabets of amino acids

Science in China, Series C: Life Sciences

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 392-402

  Li, Jing ^a   Wang, Wei ^a,b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Grouping of amino acids; Sequence alignment; Structural recognition

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO ACIDS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 34447131677     PISSN: 10069305     EISSN: 18622798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11427-007-0023-3     Document Type: Article

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