The meaning of alignment: Lessons from structural diversity

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Pirovano, Walter ^a   Feenstra, K Anton ^a   Heringa, Jaap ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION; EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS; FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION; ONLINE DATABASE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENTS; STRUCTURAL ALIGNMENTS; STRUCTURAL CLASSIFICATION; STRUCTURAL DIVERSITY;

PROTEINS;

PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN DATABASE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DATABASES, PROTEIN; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SOFTWARE;

EID: 59949099105     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-9-556     Document Type: Article

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