Computational recognition of potassium channel sequences
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Computational recognition of potassium channel sequences
MOTIVATION Potassium channels are mainly known for their role in regulating and maintaining the membrane potential. Since this is one of the key mechanisms of signal transduction, malfunction of these potassium channels leads to a wide variety of severe diseases. Thus potassium channels are priority targets of research for new drugs, despite the fact that this protein family is highly variable ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Bioinformatics
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1367-4803,1460-2059
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btl132