Evolutionary rates at codon sites may be used to align sequences and infer protein domain function

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Durand, Pierre M ^a,b   Hazelhurst, Scott ^c   Coetzer, Theresa L ^a  

^a NATIONAL HEALTH LABORATORY SERVICE   (South Africa)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID RESIDUES; CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS; RATE-BASED APPROACH; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENTS; SEQUENCE SIMILARITY;

AMINO ACIDS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FIRES; GENES; INFERENCE ENGINES; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDES;

PROTEINS;

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CODON; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; DATABASES, PROTEIN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

EID: 77952295060     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-11-151     Document Type: Article

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