TY - JOUR AU - Cherkasov, Artem AU - Ho Sui, Shannan J. AU - Brunham, Robert C. AU - Jones, Steven JM PY - 2004 DA - 2004/07/26 TI - Structural characterization of genomes by large scale sequence-structure threading: application of reliability analysis in structural genomics JO - BMC Bioinformatics SP - 101 VL - 5 IS - 1 AB - We establish that the occurrence of protein folds among genomes can be accurately described with a Weibull function. Systems which exhibit Weibull character can be interpreted with reliability theory commonly used in engineering analysis. For instance, Weibull distributions are widely used in reliability, maintainability and safety work to model time-to-failure of mechanical devices, mechanisms, building constructions and equipment. SN - 1471-2105 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-5-101 DO - 10.1186/1471-2105-5-101 ID - Cherkasov2004 ER -