Boltzmann probability of RNA structural neighbors and riboswitch detection

Bioinformatics

Volumn 23, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 2054-2062

  Freyhult, Eva ^a   Moulton, Vincent ^b   Clote, Peter ^c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RNA;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ALGORITHM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RIBOSWITCH; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL BIOINFORMATICS;

EID: 34548604264     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btm314     Document Type: Article

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