Surface antigens and potential virulence factors from parasites detected by comparative genomics of perfect amino acid repeats

Proteome Science

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Fankhauser, Niklaus ^a   Nguyen Ha, Tien Minh ^a   Adler, Joël ^b   Mäser, Pascal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Padagogische Hochschule Bern   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; COMPUTER PREDICTION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EUKARYOTE; GENE SEQUENCE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONLINE SYSTEM; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEOMICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TANDEM REPEAT;

EUKARYOTA; REPTILIA;

EID: 44449110041     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14775956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-5956-5-20     Document Type: Article

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