Simulfold: Simultaneously inferring RNA structures including pseudoknots, alignments, and trees using a Bayesian MCMC framework

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1441-1454

  Meyer, Irmtraud M ^a   Miklós, István ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; BIOLOGY; FORECASTING; FORESTRY; MARKOV PROCESSES; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

BAYESIAN; HIGH QUALITY; MULTIPLE SEQUENCE ALIGNMENTS; PREDICTION METHODS; PSEUDO-KNOTS; RNA GENES; RNA SECONDARY STRUCTURES; RNA STRUCTURES; STRUCTURE PREDICTION; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK;

RNA;

RNA;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; THERMODYNAMICS; ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RNA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SOFTWARE; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 34548443728     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.0030149     Document Type: Article

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