A robust method to detect structural and functional remote homologues

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 531-538

  Shachar, Ori ^a   Linial, Michal ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Database; Hierarchical classification; Protein family; Protein space

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPERT SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; PROTEINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY, PROTEIN; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 6344243343     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.20235     Document Type: Article

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