Iterated profile searches with PSI-BLAST--a tool for discovery in protein databases.

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Published in Trends Biochem Sci on November 01, 1998

Authors

S F Altschul1, E V Koonin

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1: NCBI, National Library of Medicine, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA. altschul@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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