Masking residues using context-specific evolutionary conservation significantly improves short linear motif discovery

Bioinformatics

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 443-450

  Davey, Norman E ^a   Shields, Denis C ^a   Edwards, Richard J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME SIZE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHORT LINEAR MOTIF; STATISTICAL MODEL; STRUCTURAL BIOINFORMATICS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DATABASES, PROTEIN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

EID: 60149099647     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btn664     Document Type: Article

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