H2r: Identification of evolutionary important residues by means of an entropy based analysis of multiple sequence alignments

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Merkl, Rainer ^a   Zwick, Matthias ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CO-EVOLUTION; ENTROPY-BASED ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE SEQUENCE ALIGNMENTS; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; SIDE-CHAINS; SPECIFIC CLASS;

AMINO ACIDS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

PROTEINS;

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; ENTROPY; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC CONSERVATION; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PREDICTION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

PROTEIN;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; ENTROPY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

EID: 42449127565     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-9-151     Document Type: Article

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