A predictor for toxin-like proteins exposes cell modulator candidates within viral genomes

Bioinformatics

Volumn 26, Issue 18, 2010, Pages

  Naamati, Guy ^a   Askenazi, Manor ^a,b   Linial, Michal ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

CONOTOXIN; PROTEOME; TOXIN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CHEMISTRY; EVALUATION; METAGENOMICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CONOTOXINS; METAGENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEOME; TOXINS, BIOLOGICAL; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 77956503395     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq375     Document Type: Article

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