RNA structures and folding: From conventional to new issues in structure predictions

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 229-235

  Schuster, Peter ^a   Stadler, Peter F ^a   Renner, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ANALYSIS; MODEL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE;

EID: 0030968993     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(97)80030-9     Document Type: Article

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