SAFA: Semi-automated footprinting analysis software for high-throughput quantification of nucleic acid footprinting experiments

RNA

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 344-354

  Das, Rhiju ^a,b   Laederach, Alain ^a,b   Pearlman, Samuel M ^b   Herschlag, Daniel ^a,c   Altman, Russ B ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrophoresis; Footprinting; Gel; Hydroxyl radical; RNA folding; Software

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYL RADICAL;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ELECTROPHORESIS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA STRUCTURE; SEMI AUTOMATED FOOTPRINTING ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUE; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; KINETICS; RNA; SOFTWARE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 13944278373     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.7214405     Document Type: Article

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