Several appropriate background distributions for entropy-based protein sequence conservation measures

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 262, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 317-322

  Dou, Yongchao ^a   Zheng, Xiaoqi ^b   Wang, Jun ^b,c  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Scientific Computing Key Laboratory   (China)

Author keywords

Functionally important residues; Integrated; Relative entropy model; Symmetric

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL BONDING; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LIGAND; MAXIMUM ENTROPY ANALYSIS; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; PROTEIN; SYMMETRY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CATALYSIS; ENTROPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; SCORING SYSTEM; STEREOCHEMISTRY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ENTROPY; LIGANDS; ROC CURVE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

EID: 70450260600     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2009.09.030     Document Type: Article

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