The meaning of alignment: lessons from structural diversity

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Protein structural alignment provides a fundamental basis for deriving principles of functional and evolutionary relationships. It is routinely used for structural classification and functional characterization of proteins and for th...

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Main Authors: Heringa Jaap, Feenstra K Anton, Pirovano Walter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2008-12-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/9/556