ConSurf 2010: Calculating evolutionary conservation in sequence and structure of proteins and nucleic acids

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2010, Pages

  Ashkenazy, Haim ^a   Erez, Elana ^a   Martz, Eric ^b   Pupko, Tal ^a   Ben Tal, Nir ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CLIENT SERVER APPLICATION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RELIABILITY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFORMATION; INTERNET; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INTERNET; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77954257799     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq399     Document Type: Article

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