State-of-the-art bioinformatics protein structure prediction tools (Review)

International Journal of Molecular Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 295-310

  Pavlopoulou, Athanasia ^a   Michalopoulos, Ioannis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

Author keywords

Multiple sequence alignment; Pairwise sequence similarity search; Phylogenetic analysis; Protein structure prediction

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANALYTIC METHOD; BOOTSTRAPPING; DNA FINGERPRINTING; HUMAN; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR MODEL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE DATABASE; STRUCTURAL BIOINFORMATICS; WEB BROWSER;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; INTERNET; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SOFTWARE;

EID: 79960026100     PISSN: 11073756     EISSN: 1791244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/ijmm.2011.705     Document Type: Review

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