Combinatorics of RNA secondary structures

Discrete Applied Mathematics

Volumn 88, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 207-237

  Hofacker, Ivo L ^a   Schuster, Peter ^a,b   Stadler, Peter F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic enumeration; Generating functions; Planar graphs; Secondary structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000287314     PISSN: 0166218X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-218X(98)00073-0     Document Type: Article

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