Thermodynamics of RNA-RNA binding

Bioinformatics

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1177-1182

  Mückstein, Ulrike ^a   Tafer, Hakim ^a   Hackermüller, Jörg ^b   Bernhart, Stephan H ^a   Stadler, Peter F ^a,c,d   Hofacker, Ivo L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR CELL THERAPY AND IMMUNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^d SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BINDING SITE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TARGETING; RNA BINDING; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 33646877072     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btl024     Document Type: Article

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