Protein short loop prediction in terms of a structural alphabet

Computational Biology and Chemistry

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 329-333

  Tyagi, Manoj ^a,b   Bornot, Aurélie ^b,c   Offmann, Bernard ^a,d   de Brevern, Alexandre G ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LA RÉUNION   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA TRANSFUSION SANGUINE   (France)

^d PEACCEL   (France)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Biophysics; Local protein structure; Protein function; Protein loops; Secondary structure

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO; DIFFERENT STRUCTURE; FLANKING REGIONS; FLEXIBLE DOCKING; LOCAL PROTEIN STRUCTURE; LOCAL STRUCTURE; PREDICTION RATE; PROTEIN BACKBONE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULAR SECONDARY STRUCTURES; REPETITIVE STRUCTURE; SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SECONDARY STRUCTURES; STRUCTURAL ALPHABET; STRUCTURAL PROTOTYPE;

BIOINFORMATICS;

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METABOLISM; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, PROTEIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS;

EID: 68949178663     PISSN: 14769271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2009.06.002     Document Type: Article

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