Robustness of the residue conservation score reflecting both frequencies and physicochemistries

Amino Acids

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 643-652

  Liu, X S ^a   Guo, W L ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

Author keywords

Conservation score; Functional site; Multiple sequence alignment; Physicochemistry; Protein folding nucleus

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; ENTROPY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN FOLDING; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

EID: 43149110628     PISSN: 09394451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00726-007-0017-2     Document Type: Article

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