Identifying and seeing beyond multiple sequence alignment errors using Intra-Molecular protein covariation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Dickson, Russell J ^a   Wahl, Lindi M ^a   Fernandes, Andrew D ^a   Gloor, Gregory B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; PREDICTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 77955330195     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011082     Document Type: Article

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