The MASH pipeline for protein function prediction and an algorithm for the geometric refinement of 3D motifs

Journal of Computational Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 791-816

  Chen, Brian Y ^a   Fofanov, Viacheslav Y ^a   Bryant, Drew H ^a   Dodson, Bradley D ^a   Kristensen, David M ^b   Lisewski, Andreas M ^b   Kimmel, Marek ^a   Lichtarge, Olivier ^b   Kavraki, Lydia E ^a,b  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional annotation of proteins; Motif design; Motif optimization; Pattern matching; Protein function prediction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CONFERENCE PAPER; GEOMETRY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; BINDING SITES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, PROTEIN; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 34547659929     PISSN: 10665277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cmb.2007.R017     Document Type: Conference Paper

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