Biases in the Experimental Annotations of Protein Function and Their Effect on Our Understanding of Protein Function Space

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Schnoes, Alexandra M ^a   Ream, David C ^b   Thorman, Alexander W ^b   Babbitt, Patricia C ^a   Friedberg, Iddo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSAYS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; THROUGHPUT;

FUNCTION SPACES; FUNCTIONAL ANNOTATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT EXPERIMENTS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT; PROTEIN FUNCTION ANNOTATION; PROTEIN FUNCTIONS; PROTEIN SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEINS STRUCTURES; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; STRUCTURE DATA;

PROTEINS;

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MICROSCOPY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; VALIDATION STUDY;

EID: 84878483493     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003063     Document Type: Article

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