A statistical sampling algorithm for RNA secondary structure prediction

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 24, 2003, Pages 7280-7301

  Ding, Ye ^a   Lawrence, Charles E ^a  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOZYME; RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME DEGRADATION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN MOTIF; REPRODUCIBILITY; RNA STRUCTURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALGORITHMS; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DRUG DESIGN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROBABILITY; RNA; RNA STABILITY; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, SPLICED LEADER; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0346888665     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg938     Document Type: Article

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