Comparison of site-specific rate-inference methods for protein sequences: Empirical Bayesian methods are superior

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1781-1791

  Mayrose, Itay ^a   Graur, Dan ^b   Ben Tal, Nir ^a   Pupko, Tal ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

Bcl X L; Bioinformatics; Empirical Bayesian methods; Evolutionary conservation; Rate variation among sites

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; PROTEIN BAK; PROTEIN BCL XL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOINFORMATICS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EVOLUTION; PROTEIN FAMILY; SRC HOMOLOGY DOMAIN;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BCL-X PROTEIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; SOFTWARE;

EID: 4143051195     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh194     Document Type: Article

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