Gleaning structural and functional information from correlations in protein multiple sequence alignments

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 38, Issue , 2016, Pages 1-8

  Neuwald, Andrew F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANALYTIC METHOD; BAYESIAN PARTITIONING WITH PATTERN SELECTION; COEVOLUTION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIRECT COUPLING ANALYSIS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIPLE SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; NONHUMAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STATISTICAL COUPLING ANALYSIS; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; INTERATRIAL BLOCK; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROCEDURES;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; INTERATRIAL BLOCK; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84966400984     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2016.04.006     Document Type: Review

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