Alignment-free prediction of mycobacterial DNA promoters based on pseudo-folding lattice network or star-graph topological indices

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 256, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 458-466

  Perez Bello, Alcides ^a,b   Munteanu, Cristian Robert ^c   Ubeira, Florencio M ^a   Lopes De Magalhães, Alexandre ^c   Uriarte, Eugenio ^a   González Díaz, Humberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF LAS VILLAS   (Cuba)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Lattice network; Markov model; Mycobacterial promoters; QSAR; Star graph; Topological indices

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

BACTERIUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA; MARKOV CHAIN; PATHOGEN; TOPOLOGY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CODON; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STOCHASTIC MODEL; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

CODON; DNA, BACTERIAL; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 58149187912     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2008.09.035     Document Type: Article

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