Pseudoknots in RNA secondary structures: Representation, enumeration, and prevalence

Journal of Computational Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1197-1213

  Rødland, Einar Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Combinatorics; Non coding RNA; Pseudoknots; RNA secondary structure; Visualization

Indexed keywords

RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER PROGRAM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 33749252538     PISSN: 10665277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cmb.2006.13.1197     Document Type: Review

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