MetalDetector: A web server for predicting metal-binding sites and disulfide bridges in proteins from sequence

Bioinformatics

Volumn 24, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 2094-2095

  Lippi, Marco ^a   Passerini, Andrea ^a   Punta, Marco ^b   Rost, Burkhard ^b   Frasconi, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; HISTIDINE; TRANSITION ELEMENT;

ACCURACY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION TREE; DISULFIDE BOND; INTERNET; METAL BINDING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; WEB BROWSER;

EID: 51749116964     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btn371     Document Type: Article

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