Fast structural alignment of biomolecules using a hash table, n-grams and string descriptors

Algorithms

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 692-709

  Bauer, Raphael André ^a,b   Rother, Kristian ^c,d   Moor, Peter ^a   Reinert, Knut ^e   Steinke, Thomas ^f   Bujnicki, Janusz M ^c,d   Preissner, Robert ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Graduate School: Genomics and Systems Biology of Molecular Networks   (Germany)

^c INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^d ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^e FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^f ZUSE INSTITUTE BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hash table; N gram; Protein; RNA; Structural alignment; Torsion angles

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858245295     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/a2020692     Document Type: Article

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