FreeContact: Fast and free software for protein contact prediction from residue co-evolution

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Kaján, László ^a   Hopf, Thomas A ^a,b   Kalaš, Matúš ^c,d   Marks, Debora S ^b   Rost, Burkhard ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Uni Computing   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

2D prediction; BioXSD; Debian package; EVcouplings; EVfold; Fast protein contact prediction; mfDCA; Open source software; Protein sequence analysis; Protein structure prediction; PSICOV

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE MATRIX; FORECASTING; OPEN SYSTEMS; PROTEINS; SOFTWARE TESTING;

BIOXSD; EVCOUPLINGS; EVFOLD; MFDCA; OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARES; PROTEIN SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE PREDICTION; PSICOV;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84899072164     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-15-85     Document Type: Article

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