A faster and more space-efficient algorithm for inferring arc-annotations of RNA sequences through alignment

Algorithmica (New York)

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 223-245

  Jansson, Jesper ^a   Ng, See Kiong ^b   Sung, Wing Kin ^a,c   Willy, Hugo ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^c GENOME INSTITUTE OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Arc annotations; RNA secondary structure; Sequence structure alignment; Sparsification technique

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RNA;

ARC ANNOTATIONS; RNA SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE STRUCTURE ALIGNMENT; SPARSIFICATION TECHNIQUE;

PROTEINS;

EID: 33748527840     PISSN: 01784617     EISSN: 14320541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00453-006-1207-0     Document Type: Article

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