A method for finding optimal RNA secondary structures using a new entropy model (vsfold)

Nucleosides, Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 171-189

  Dawson, Wayne ^a   Fujiwara, Kazuya ^a   Kawai, Gota ^a   Futamura, Yasuhiro ^b   Yamamoto, Kenji ^b  

^a CHIBA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cross linking entropy; Folding; Free energy; Kuhn length; Renormalization theory; RNA secondary structure

Indexed keywords

DINUCLEOTIDE; RNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL BOND; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENERGY; ENTROPY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; RNA SEQUENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ENTROPY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA;

EID: 31644433382     PISSN: 15257770     EISSN: 15322335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15257770500446915     Document Type: Article

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