Accounting for epistatic interactions improves the functional analysis of protein structures

Bioinformatics

Volumn 29, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 2714-2721

  Wilkins, Angela D ^a,b   Venner, Eric ^c   Marciano, David C ^a   Erdin, Serkan ^d   Atri, Benu ^c   Lua, Rhonald C ^a   Lichtarge, Olivier ^a,b,c  

^a Department of Molecular and Human Genetics ^*  (United States)

^b CIBR Center for Computational and Integrative Biomedical Research   (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LEXA PROTEIN, BACTERIA; PROTEIN; PROTEOME; SERINE PROTEINASE;

ALGORITHM; CHEMISTRY; EPISTASIS; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS; PROTEOME; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

EID: 84886063889     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btt489     Document Type: Article

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