Mfold web server for nucleic acid folding and hybridization prediction

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 13, 2003, Pages 3406-3415

  Zuker, Michael ^a  

^a Research Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; DNA;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PREDICTION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA STRUCTURE; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RELIABILITY; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DNA DENATURATION; INTERNET; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; THERMODYNAMICS;

BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; INTERNET; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; RNA; SOFTWARE; THERMODYNAMICS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 0042121256     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg595     Document Type: Article

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