Is protein classification necessary? Toward alternative approaches to function annotation

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 363-368

  Petrey, Donald ^a   Honig, Barry ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITE; CLASSIFICATION; FUNCTIONAL PROTEOMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL PROTEOMICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEINS;

EID: 66549120787     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2009.02.001     Document Type: Review

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