Finding specific RNA motifs: Function in a zeptomole world?

RNA

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 218-230

  Knight, Rob ^a   Yarus, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Combinatorics; Molecular evolution; Probability; RNA world; Selection amplification; SELEX; Sequence motifs

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ARTICLE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA METABOLISM; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; RNA; RNA, CATALYTIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 0037319334     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.2138803     Document Type: Article

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