A statistical analysis of RNA folding algorithms through thermodynamic parameter perturbation

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 519-524

  Layton, D M ^a,b   Bundschuh, R ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ALGORITHM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RELIABILITY; RNA STABILITY; RNA STRUCTURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; EVALUATION; REPRODUCIBILITY;

RNA;

ALGORITHMS; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 13744249396     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh983     Document Type: Article

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