Current challenges in genome annotation through structural biology and bioinformatics

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 594-601

  Furnham, Nicholas ^a   de Beer, Tjaart A P ^a   Thornton, Janet M ^a  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GAIN OF FUNCTION MUTATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE PRODUCT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STRUCTURAL BIOINFORMATICS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENOME; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; POINT MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEINS;

EID: 84867747152     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2012.07.005     Document Type: Review

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