Reconstruction of ancestral protein sequences and its applications

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Cai, Wei ^b   Pei, Jimin ^b   Grishin, Nick V ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN DATABASE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, PROTEIN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SOFTWARE VALIDATION;

EID: 8744259751     PISSN: 14712148     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-4-33     Document Type: Article

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