Improving position-specific predictions of protein functional sites using phylogenetic motifs

Bioinformatics

Volumn 24, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 2308-2316

  Dukka, Bahadur K C ^a   Livesay, Dennis R ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; COMPUTER PREDICTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME BINDING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC CONSERVATION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; BINDING SITES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DATABASES, PROTEIN; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

EID: 53749096681     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btn454     Document Type: Article

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