ConSurf 2016: an improved methodology to estimate and visualize evolutionary conservation in macromolecules

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 44, Issue W1, 2016, Pages W344-W350

  Ashkenazy, Haim ^a   Abadi, Shiran ^a   Martz, Eric ^b   Chay, Ofer ^a   Mayrose, Itay ^a   Pupko, Tal ^a   Ben Tal, Nir ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID; DNA; PROTEIN; RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC SELECTION; MACROMOLECULE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PREDICTION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA SEQUENCING; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONFORMATION; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; INTERNET; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; INTERNET; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; PROTEIN DOMAINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS; RNA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84991664243     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/NAR/GKW408     Document Type: Article

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