CHEXVIS: A tool for molecular channel extraction and visualization

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Masood, Talha Bin ^a   Sandhya, Sankaran ^a   Chandra, Nagasuma ^a   Natarajan, Vijay ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Alpha complex; Biomolecular channels; Ion channels; Pores; Transmembrane pores; Visualization

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION; FLOW VISUALIZATION; MOLECULES; PROTEINS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); WEB SERVICES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ALPHA COMPLEX; BIO-MOLECULAR; ION CHANNEL; PORES; TRANS-MEMBRANE PORES;

VISUALIZATION;

ION CHANNEL; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; STATIC ELECTRICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ION CHANNELS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SOFTWARE; STATIC ELECTRICITY; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84928561542     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12859-015-0545-9     Document Type: Article

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