Background frequencies for residue variability estimates: BLOSUM revisited

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Mihalek, I ^a,b   Res I ^a   Lichtarge, O ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND FREQUENCIES; CONSERVATION MEASURES; MATHEMATICAL PROPERTIES; MULTIPLE SEQUENCE ALIGNMENTS; MUTATION PROBABILITY; PROTEIN FUNCTIONAL SITES; RESOLUTION POWER; SHANNON ENTROPY;

BIOINFORMATICS; FUNCTIONS; PROTEINS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTROPY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUALITY CONTROL; SCORING SYSTEM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TIME; ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

PROTEIN;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SOFTWARE;

EID: 41049089044     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-8-488     Document Type: Article

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