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SEQHUNT: A Program to Screen Aligned Nucleotide and Amino Acid Sequences

By: George Johnson², Tai Te Wu², Elvin A. Kabat³

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We have been collecting nucleotide and amino acid sequences of proteins of immunological interest, and aligning them in order to understand the structure and function relations of these proteins (1). To aid in organizing and analyzing this collection, a computer program, called SEQHUNT, was written.

Affiliation(s): (2) Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
(3) Department of Microbiology, Columbia University, New York, NY

Book Title: Antibody Engineering Protocols

Series: Methods in Molecular Biology | Volume: 51 | Pub. Date: Jul-13-1995 | Page Range: 1-15 | DOI: 10.1385/0-89603-275-2:1

Subject: Immunology

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