Empirical and structural models for insertions and deletions in the divergent evolution of proteins.

doi:10.1006/jmbi.1993.1105

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Empirical and structural models for insertions and deletions in the divergent evolution of proteins.

Journal of molecular biology - 20 Feb 1993

Benner S A, Cohen M A, Gonnet G H

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The exhaustive matching of the protein sequence database makes possible a broadly based study of insertions and deletions (indels) during divergent evolution. In this study, the probability of a gap in an alignment of a pair of homologous protein sequences was found to increase with the evolution...

Topics

Amino Acid Sequence
Amino Acids
Biological Evolution
Databases, Factual
Genetic Variation
Models, Chemical
Models, Genetic
Molecular Sequence Data
Probability
Proteins
Sequence Deletion
Sequence Homology, Amino Acid

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