Flavitrack analysis of the structure and function of West Nile non-structural proteins

International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 134-146

  Danecek, Petr ^a   Schein, Catherine H ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

consensus sequence; Flavitrack; NS2a; PCPMer; West Nile virus; WN

Indexed keywords

VIRUS PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; FLAVIVIRUS; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS REPLICATION; WEST NILE FEVER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; FLAVIVIRUS; GENOME, VIRAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS; VIRUS REPLICATION; WEST NILE FEVER;

EID: 77953628834     PISSN: 17445485     EISSN: 17445493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBRA.2010.032117     Document Type: Article

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