Clustal Omega for making accurate alignments of many protein sequences

Protein Science

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 135-145

  Sievers, Fabian ^a   Higgins, Desmond G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

benchmarking; clustal omega; multiple sequence alignment; protein structure

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOFTWARE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

PROTEIN;

PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SOFTWARE;

EID: 85032724599     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: 1469896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pro.3290     Document Type: Article

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