Parallel RNA secondary structure prediction using stochastic context-free grammars

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 17, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 1669-1685

  Liu, Tong ^a   Schmidt, Bertil ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Parallel processing; RNA secondary structure; Stochastic context free grammars

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONTEXT FREE GRAMMARS; CYTOLOGY; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ALIGNMENT ALGORITHMS; RNA GENES; RNA SEQUENCES; SECONDARY STRUCTURE PREDICTION;

RNA;

EID: 27744530711     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.952     Document Type: Article

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