Evaluation of several lightweight stochastic context-free grammars for RNA secondary structure prediction

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Dowell, Robin D ^a   Eddy, Sean R ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY MODELS; INTEGRATED MODELING; PROBABILISTIC MODELING; RNA SECONDARY STRUCTURE PREDICTION; RNA SECONDARY STRUCTURES; RNA SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOURCES OF INFORMATIONS; STOCHASTIC CONTEXT FREE GRAMMAR;

CONTEXT FREE GRAMMARS; DESIGN; RNA;

FORECASTING;

DOCKING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; RIBONUCLEASE; RNA;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ALGORITHM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; STOCHASTIC MODEL; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; EVALUATION STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RNA; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 13244260785     PISSN: 14712105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-5-71     Document Type: Article

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