Using reduced amino acid composition to predict defensin family and subfamily: Integrating similarity measure and structural alphabet

Peptides

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1788-1793

  Zuo, Yong Chun ^a   Li, Qian Zhong ^a  

^a INNER MONGOLIA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Defensins family and subfamily; Increment of diversity; N Peptide composition; Prediction performance; Reduced amino acid alphabet

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DEFENSIN; PEPTIDE;

ACCURACY; AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; JACKKNIFE TEST; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; DEFENSINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 70349333875     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2009.06.032     Document Type: Article

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