Predicting helical coaxial stacking in RNA multibranch loops

RNA

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 939-951

  Tyagi, Rahul ^a   Mathews, David H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Coaxial stacking; Dynamic programming; Helical junction; Multibranch loop; Nearest neighbor model; Partition function; RNA structure

Indexed keywords

HAIRPIN RIBOZYME; HAMMERHEAD RIBOZYME; RIBONUCLEASE P; RIBOSOME RNA; RIBOZYME; RNA; RNA 16S; RNA 23S; RNA DERIVATIVE; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENERGY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RNA STRUCTURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 34250804011     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.305307     Document Type: Article

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