An improved integration of template-based and template-free protein structure modeling methods and its assessment in CASP11

Protein and Peptide Letters

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 586-593

  Li, Jilong ^a   Adhikari, Badri ^a   Cheng, Jianlin ^a,b  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Model generation; Model selection; Protein structure prediction; Sequence alignment; Template based modeling; Template free modeling

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; PROCEDURES; SOFTWARE;

PROTEIN;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84934283825     PISSN: 09298665     EISSN: 18755305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/0929866522666150520145717     Document Type: Article

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