High quality protein sequence alignment by combining structural profile prediction and profile alignment using SABER-TOOTH

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Teichert, Florian ^a,b   Minning, Jonas ^a   Bastolla, Ugo ^b   Porto, Markus ^a,c  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT ALGORITHMS; BIOINFORMATICS ANALYSIS; EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS; PAIRWISE SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; PROTEIN SEQUENCE ALIGNMENTS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT METHODS; STRUCTURAL CLASSIFICATION; STRUCTURAL SIMILARITY;

BIOINFORMATICS; FORECASTING; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROTEINS; TOOLS;

ALIGNMENT;

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77952079297     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-11-251     Document Type: Article

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