The language of RNA: A formal grammar that includes pseudoknots

Bioinformatics

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 334-340

  Rivas, Elena ^a   Eddy, Sean R ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STRUCTURE;

GOES;

EID: 0034046133     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/16.4.334     Document Type: Article

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