The challenge of annotating protein sequences: The tale of eight domains of unknown function in Pfam

Computational Biology and Chemistry

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 210-214

  Goonesekere, Nalin C W ^a   Shipely, Krysten ^a   O'Connor, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Domains of unknown function; Function prediction; Pfam; Sequence homology

Indexed keywords

ENZYME ACTIVE SITES; FUNCTION PREDICTION; FUNCTIONAL ANNOTATION; GENOME ANNOTATION; HOMOLOGOUS SEQUENCES; PFAM; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN SEQUENCES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEQUENCE IDENTITY;

PROTEINS;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN DATABASE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

CATALYTIC DOMAIN; DATABASES, PROTEIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 77955419782     PISSN: 14769271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2010.04.001     Document Type: Article

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