Protein Structure and Function Prediction Using I-TASSER

Current Protocols in Bioinformatics

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 5.8.1-5.8.15

  Yang, Jianyi ^a,b   Zhang, Yang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

I TASSER; protein function annotation; protein structure prediction; threading

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; GENE ONTOLOGY; LIGAND BINDING; PREDICTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIMULATION; STRUCTURAL MODEL; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

LIGAND; PROTEIN; SOLVENT;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, PROTEIN; GENE ONTOLOGY; LIGANDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOLVENTS;

EID: 85014608290     PISSN: 19343396     EISSN: 1934340X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/0471250953.bi0508s52     Document Type: Article

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