SDPhound, a mutual information-based method to investigate specificity-determining positions

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Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 764-789

  Bonella, Sara ^a,c   Rocchia, Walter ^a,b   Amat, Pietro ^a   Nifosí, Riccardo ^a   Tozzini, Valentina ^a  

^a INFM   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Intrinsically fluorescent proteins; Mutual information; Specificity determining positions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859642807     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/a2020764     Document Type: Article

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