An FPGA implementation to detect selective cationic antibacterial peptides

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Polanco González, Carlos ^a,d   Nuño Maganda, Marco Aurelio ^b   Arias Estrada, Miguel ^c   del Rio, Gabriel ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b Universidad Politecnica de Victoria   (Mexico)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ASTROFÍSICA   (Mexico)

^d CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES QUÍMICAS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADAPTATION; ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CODING; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAY; HYDROPHOBICITY; ISOELECTRIC POINT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MICROPROCESSOR; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PROCESS DESIGN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES;

EID: 84855744948     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021399     Document Type: Article

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