Automated identification of RNA conformational motifs: Theory and application to the HM LSU 23S rRNA

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 21, 2003, Pages 6249-6257

  Hershkovitz, Eli ^a   Tannenbaum, Emmanuel ^b   Howerton, Shelley B ^a   Sheth, Ajay ^a   Tannenbaum, Allen ^a   Williams, Loren Dean ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HALOARCULA MARISMORTUI; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AUTOMATION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HALOARCULA MARISMORTUI; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S;

HALOARCULA; HALOARCULA MARISMORTUI;

EID: 0344011107     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg835     Document Type: Article

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