An improved profile-level domain linker propensity index for protein domain boundary prediction

Protein and Peptide Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 7-16

  Zhang, Yanfeng ^a   Liu, Bin ^a   Dong, Qiwen ^b   Jin, Victor X ^c  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Domain boundary; Domain linker; Multiple sequence alignments; Sequence based prediction

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROPENSITY SCORE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROPENSITY SCORE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS;

EID: 78751536327     PISSN: 09298665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/092986611794328717     Document Type: Article

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