CUSP: An algorithm to distinguish structurally conserved and unconserved regions in protein domain alignments and its application in the study of large length variations

BMC Structural Biology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Sandhya, Sankaran ^a   Pankaj, Barah ^a,b   Govind, Madabosse Kande ^a   Offmann, Bernard ^c   Srinivasan, Narayanaswamy ^d   Sowdhamini, Ramanathan ^a  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LA RÉUNION   (France)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

PROTEIN;

ALGORITHMS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 44949092507     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726807     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-28     Document Type: Article

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