A quality metric for homology modeling: The H-factor

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Di Luccio, Eric ^a,b   Koehl, Patrice ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL FUNCTIONS; EXPERIMENTAL KNOWLEDGE; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; HOMOLOGY MODELING; MODELING TECHNIQUE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE PREDICTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURES; STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY;

SELF ASSEMBLY; WEB SERVICES; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

PROTEINS;

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VALIDATION STUDY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; INTERNET; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 79551579074     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-12-48     Document Type: Article

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