Powerful sequence similarity search methods and in-depth manual analyses can identify remote homologs in many apparently "orphan" viral proteins

Journal of Virology

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 10-20

  Kuchibhatla, Durga B ^a   Sherman, Westley A ^a   Chung, Betty Y W ^b   Cook, Shelley ^c   Schneider, Georg ^a,d   Eisenhaber, Birgit ^a   Karlin, David G ^e  

^a BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AUSTRIA   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS GLYCOPROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHRONIC BEE PARALYSIS VIRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RNA VIRUS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TAXONOMY; VIRION; VIRUS GENOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 84890891375     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.02595-13     Document Type: Article

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