Consensus folding of unaligned RNA sequences revisited

Journal of Computational Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 283-295

  Bafna, Vineet ^a   Tang, Haixu ^b   Zhang, Shaojie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic programming; RNA consensus folding; RNA secondary structure prediction; RNA stack configuration

Indexed keywords

UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGY; CALCULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSENSUS FOLDING; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; ENERGY; PARAMETER; PERFORMANCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA FOLDING; RNA SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RNA; RNA STABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 33645984848     PISSN: 10665277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cmb.2006.13.283     Document Type: Conference Paper

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