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SUBMITTER: Yau SS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4302309 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yau Stephen S-T SS Mao Wei-Guang WG Benson Max M He Rong Lucy RL
Scientific reports 20150122
What kinds of amino acid sequences could possibly be protein sequences? From all existing databases that we can find, known proteins are only a small fraction of all possible combinations of amino acids. Beginning with Sanger's first detailed determination of a protein sequence in 1952, previous studies have focused on describing the structure of existing protein sequences in order to construct the protein universe. No one, however, has developed a criteria for determining whether an arbitrary a ...[more]