A new computational approach redefines the subtelomeric vir superfamily of Plasmodium vivax

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Lopez, Francisco Javier ^a,c   Bernabeu, Maria ^a   Fernandez Becerra, Carmen ^a   del Portillo, Hernando A ^a,b,d  

^a CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CREAL   (Spain)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^c Medical Genome Project   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Homology blocks; Malaria; Plasmodium vivax; Sequence clustering; Similarity networks; Subtelomeric multigene families; Vir genes; VIR proteins

Indexed keywords

MICROORGANISM PROTEIN; PROTEIN VIR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMOSOME; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ALGORITHM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TELOMERE; VIR GENE;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALARIA, VIVAX; MARKOV CHAINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PROTEOMICS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TELOMERE;

PLASMODIUM VIVAX; VIR;

EID: 84872181092     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-8     Document Type: Article

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