Species-specific analysis of protein sequence motifs using mutual information

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Protein sequence motifs are by definition short fragments of conserved amino acids, often associated with a specific function. Accordingly protein sequence profiles derived from multiple sequence alignments provide an alternative des...

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Main Authors: Weckwerth Wolfram, Keshvari Nima, Hummel Jan, Selbig Joachim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2005-06-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/6/164