A Python analytical pipeline to identify prohormone precursors and predict prohormone cleavage sites

Frontiers in Neuroinformatics

Volumn 2, Issue DEC, 2008, Pages

  Southey, Bruce R ^a   Sweedler, Jonathan V ^a   Rodriguez Zas, Sandra L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Machine learning; Neuropeptides; Precursor cleavage; Python; Rhesus monkey; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650817831     PISSN: 16625196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.11.007.2008     Document Type: Article

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