Semiempirical variational approach to RNA folding

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 248, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 336-352

  Fernández, Ariel ^a   Colubri, Andrés ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL SUR   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Lagrangian dynamics; Monte Carlo simulations; RNA folding

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTROPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

ADIABATIC CONDITIONS; RNA FOLDING; SEQUENTIAL MINIMIZATION OF CONFORMATIONAL ENTROPY LOSS;

RNA;

EID: 0031678047     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(97)00527-X     Document Type: Article

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