Structure prediction for the helical skeletons detected from the low resolution protein density map

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 11, Issue SUPPLL.1, 2010, Pages

  Al Nasr, Kamal ^a   Sun, Weitao ^b   He, Jing ^a,c  

^a ECS Building   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c New Mexico State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURES; CORRECT TOPOLOGY; EFFECTIVE CONTACT; EFFECTIVE ENERGY; ELECTRON CRYO MICROSCOPIES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE PREDICTION; SECONDARY STRUCTURES; STRUCTURE PREDICTION;

CHAINS; CONFORMATIONS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; BIOINFORMATICS; FORECASTING;

PROTEINS;

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; DATABASES, PROTEIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS;

EID: 75149136663     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-11-S1-S44     Document Type: Article

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