LoCo: A novel main chain scoring function for protein structure prediction based on local coordinates

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Moughon, Stewart E ^a   Samudrala, Ram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTACT POTENTIAL; DISTANCE-BASED; LOCAL COORDINATE; LOCAL COORDINATE SYSTEM; PROTEIN STRUCTURE PREDICTION; PROTEIN-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS; RELATIVE ORIENTATION; SCORING FUNCTIONS;

AMINO ACIDS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROTEINS;

CHAINS;

AMINO ACID; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; KNOWLEDGE BASE; METABOLISM; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

AMINO ACIDS; KNOWLEDGE BASES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS;

EID: 80052848450     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-12-368     Document Type: Article

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