Estimating the length of transmembrane helices using Z-coordinate predictions

Protein Science

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 271-278

  Papaloukas, Costas ^a,b   Granseth, Erik ^a   Viklund, Håkan ^a   Elofsson, Arne ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Computational analysis of protein structure; Membrane proteins; Protein structure prediction

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HYDROPHOBICITY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 38649141141     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: 1469896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.073036108     Document Type: Article

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