Evolutionary dynamics and optimization: Neutral networks as model-landscapes for RNA secondary-structure folding-landscapes

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 929, Issue , 1995, Pages 128-147

  Forst, Christian V ^a   Reidys, Christian ^b   Weber, Jacqueline ^b  

^a FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS;

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION; ERROR THRESHOLD; EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS; NEUTRAL NETWORK; RNA SECONDARY STRUCTURES; RNA SEQUENCES; SECONDARY STRUCTURES;

RNA;

EID: 14444274290     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-59496-5_294     Document Type: Conference Paper

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