Calculation of folding energies of single-stranded nucleic acid sequences: Conceptual issues

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 248, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 745-753

  Forsdyke, Donald R ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Base composition; Base order; Base shuffling; Dinucleotide; Folding energetics; Gene identification; MicroRNAs; Non coding RNAs; Recombination; Secondary structure

Indexed keywords

DNA; NUCLEIC ACID; RNA;

BIOENERGETICS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DNA; GENOME; NUCLEIC ACID; RECOMBINATION; RNA;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RNA;

EID: 34548743514     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2007.07.008     Document Type: Article

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