Sfold web server for statistical folding and rational design of nucleic acids

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 32, Issue WEB SERVER ISS., 2004, Pages

  Ding, Yeng ^a   Chan, Chi Yu ^a   Lawrence, Charles E ^a  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEIC ACID; RIBOZYME; RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ENZYME DEGRADATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; ONLINE SYSTEM; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TARGETING; RNA STRUCTURE; SAMPLING; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; INTERNET; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; RNA; RNA STABILITY; RNA, CATALYTIC; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 3242877996     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh449     Document Type: Article

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