Membrain: Improving the accuracy of predicting transmembrane helices

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Shen, Hongbin ^a   Chou, James J ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ALPHA HELIX; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; K NEAREST NEIGHBOR; MACHINE LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASES, PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 48749084114     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002399     Document Type: Article

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