Conserved RNA secondary structures in viral genomes: A survey

Bioinformatics

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1495-1499

  Hofacker, I L ^a   Stadler, P F ^a,b   Stocsits, R R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARENAVIRUS; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BUNYAVIRUS; COLIPHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; FILOVIRIDAE; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOMYXOVIRUS; PARAMYXOVIRUS; PILOT STUDY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS; RHABDOVIRUS; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA VIRUS; VIRUS GENOME;

RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 3543051101     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bth108     Document Type: Article

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