AMPA: An automated web server for prediction of protein antimicrobial regions

Bioinformatics

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 130-131

  Torrent, Marc ^a,b   Di Tommaso, Paolo ^c   Pulido, David ^b   Nogués, M Victòria ^b   Notredame, Cedric ^c   Boix, Ester ^b   Andreu, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDE; PEPTIDE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; INTERNET; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; INTERNET; PEPTIDES; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84855164403     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr604     Document Type: Article

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