Using RNA secondary structures to guide sequence motif finding towards single-stranded regions

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 34, Issue 17, 2006, Pages

  Hiller, Michael ^a   Pudimat, Rainer ^a   Busch, Anke ^a   Backofen, Rolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED RNA; RNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; STRUCTURAL BIOINFORMATICS; ALGORITHM; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; EVALUATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 33750212480     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl544     Document Type: Article

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