Exploring the complex folding kinetics of RNA hairpins: I. General folding kinetics analysis

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 765-777

  Zhang, Wenbing ^a   Chen, Shi Jie ^a  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ARTICLE; GENE CLUSTER; KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 33646191609     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.105.062935     Document Type: Article

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