Informatics challenges in structured RNA

Briefings in Bioinformatics

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 294-303

  Laederach, Alain ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Folding; Informatics; Ribosome; Riboswitch; RNA; RNAi

Indexed keywords

RNA;

BASE PAIRING; BIOINFORMATICS; CATALYSIS; CLINICAL DATA REPOSITORY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA BASE; GENE CONTROL; METABOLITE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RIBOSWITCH; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; RNA INTERFERENCE; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 36349034517     PISSN: 14675463     EISSN: 14774054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbm026     Document Type: Review

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