Bioinformatics annotation of human y chromosome-encoded protein pathways and interactions

Journal of Proteome Research

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 3503-3518

  Rengaraj, Deivendran ^a   Kwon, Woo Sung ^a   Pang, Myung Geol ^a  

^a Chung Ang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Chromosome Centric Human Proteome Project (C HPP); human Y chromosome; protein annotation; protein interactions; protein orthologs; protein pathways

Indexed keywords

TESTIS DETERMINING FACTOR; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CHIMPANZEE; CHROMOSOME; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INFORMATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SPECIES; Y CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; GENETICS; MOUSE; PAN TROGLODYTES;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HUMANS; MICE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PROTEINS;

EID: 84941053834     PISSN: 15353893     EISSN: 15353907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.5b00491     Document Type: Article

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