Prionhome: A database of prions and other sequences relevant to Prion phenomena

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Harbi, Djamel ^a   Parthiban, Marimuthu ^e   Gendoo, Deena M A ^a   Ehsani, Sepehr ^d   Kumar, Manish ^b   Schmitt Ulms, Gerold ^d   Sowdhamini, Ramanathan ^c   Harrison, Paul M ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^c TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN; AMYLOID; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; NONHUMAN; PRIONHOME DATABASE; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PRION; PSEUDOGENE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMYLOID; DATABASES, PROTEIN; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PRIONS; PSEUDOGENES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84857401084     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031785     Document Type: Article

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