AlignMe - A membrane protein sequence alignment web server

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue W1, 2014, Pages

  Stamm, Marcus ^a   Staritzbichler, René ^a,b   Khafizov, Kamil ^a,c   Forrest, Lucy R ^a,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^c MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ACCURACY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROPATHY PROFILE ALIGNMENT; HYDROPHOBICITY; NOSTOC; PAIR WISE ALIGNMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WEB SERVER;

HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; INTERNET; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84904786965     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku291     Document Type: Article

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