Parsing nucleic acid pseudoknotted secondary structure: Algorithm and applications

Journal of Computational Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 16-32

  Rastegari, Baharak ^a   Condon, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Pseudoknots; RNA; Secondary structure

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PREDICTION; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA STRUCTURE; STRUCTURAL BIOINFORMATICS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALGORITHMS; BASE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, TRANSFER; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 34047206971     PISSN: 10665277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cmb.2006.0108     Document Type: Article

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