A short survey on genetic sequences, chou's pseudo amino acid composition and its combination with fuzzy set theory

Open Bioinformatics Journal

Volumn 7, Issue SUPPL.1, 2013, Pages 41-48

  Georgiou, D N ^a   Karakasidis, T E ^b   Megaritis, A C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^c TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Amino acids; Bioinformatics; DNA; Fuzzy clustering; Genetic sequences

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CHOUS PSEUDO AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; FUZZY SYSTEM; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; PHYSICOCHEMICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY;

EID: 84896693437     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18750362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1875036201307010041     Document Type: Article

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