Seq2Ref: A web server to facilitate functional interpretation

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Li, Wenlin ^b   Cong, Qian ^b   Kinch, Lisa N ^a   Grishin, Nick V ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional interpretation; PubMed literature; Reference protein; Sequence homology; Web server

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC ANNOTATION; COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH; ERROR PRONES; EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; FUNCTIONAL INTERPRETATIONS; GENOME SEQUENCING; IN-DEPTH UNDERSTANDING; PROTEIN SEQUENCE DATABASE; PUBMED LITERATURE; QUERY SEQUENCE; RATING SYSTEM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WEB SERVERS;

QUERY PROCESSING; WEB SERVICES;

PROTEINS;

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; INTERNET; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN DATABASE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STANDARD;

DATABASES, PROTEIN; INTERNET; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84873913850     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-14-30     Document Type: Article

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