Identifying Structural Domains in Proteins

Structural Bioinformatics

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 365-385

  Wernisch, Lorenz ^a   Wodak, Shoshana J ^a,b  

^a EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

First generation algorithms; Sequence patterns; Structural domains in proteins

Indexed keywords

FIRST-GENERATION ALGORITHMS; SEQUENCE PATTERNS; STRUCTURAL DOMAINS;

PROTEINS;

EID: 84880135206     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/0471721204.ch18     Document Type: Chapter

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