Algorithm independent properties of RNA secondary structure predictions

European Biophysics Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 115-130

  Tacker, Manfred ^d   Stadler, Peter F ^a,b   Bornberg Bauer, Erich G ^e   Hofacker, Ivo L ^f   Schuster, Peter ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d Osterreichisches H   (Austria)

^e GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Kinetic folding; Minimum free energy structures; RNA secondary structures; Sequence structure relations

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; RNA STRUCTURE;

EID: 0030444757     PISSN: 01757571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002490050023     Document Type: Article

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