Transferring functional annotations of membrane transporters on the basis of sequence similarity and sequence motifs

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Barghash, Ahmad ^a   Helms, Volkhard ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

BLAST; Functional classification; HMMER; Membrane transporter; MEME; Sequence homology; Substrate; TC classification system

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; FUNCTIONAL CLASSIFICATION; HMMER; MEME; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACIDS; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOLOGY; BLASTING; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LIPID BILAYERS; METAL IONS; YEAST;

SUBSTRATES;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

CARRIER PROTEIN;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEOMICS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROTEOMICS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 84888252483     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-14-343     Document Type: Article

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