Protein structure homology modeling using SWISS-MODEL workspace

Nature Protocols

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-13

  Bordoli, Lorenza ^a   Kiefer, Florian ^a   Arnold, Konstantin ^a   Benkert, Pascal ^a   Battey, James ^a   Schwede, Torsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET PROTOCOL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RELIABILITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WEB BROWSER; BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC DATABASE; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; INTERNET; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 61449229355     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2008.197     Document Type: Article

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