An overview of the prediction of protein DNA-binding sites

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 5194-5215

  Si, Jingna ^a   Zhao, Rui ^a   Wu, Rongling ^a  

^a BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; DNA binding site; Machine learning method; Prediction

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BAYESIAN LEARNING; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; DECISION TREE; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SPLICING; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RANDOM FOREST; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STATIC ELECTRICITY; ANIMAL; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; METABOLISM;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BINDING SITES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; PROTEIN BINDING;

EID: 84925864754     PISSN: 16616596     EISSN: 14220067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijms16035194     Document Type: Review

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