NCACO-score: An effective main-chain dependent scoring function for structure modeling

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Tian, Liqing ^a,b   Wu, Aiping ^a   Cao, Yang ^a,b   Dong, Xiaoxi ^a,b   Hu, Yun ^a,b   Jiang, Taijiao ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COARSE GRAINED MODELS; CRITICAL COMPONENT; FRAGMENT ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE PREDICTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURES; SCORING FUNCTIONS; STRUCTURAL INFORMATION; STRUCTURE MODELING;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; PROTEINS;

CHAINS;

AMINO ACID; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; PROTEIN DATABASE;

AMINO ACIDS; DATABASES, PROTEIN; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEINS;

EID: 79957452885     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-12-208     Document Type: Article

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