Accuracy of protein hydropathy predictions

International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 735-754

  Jääskeläinen, Satu ^a,b   Riikonen, Pentti ^a,b   Salakoski, Tapio ^a,b   Vihinen, Mauno ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b TURKU CENTRE FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Finland)

^c TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^d TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Accuracy assessment; Amino acid solvent accessibility; Prediction accuracy

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650482076     PISSN: 17485673     EISSN: 17485681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJDMB.2010.037550     Document Type: Article

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