RnaPredict - An evolutionary algorithm for RNA secondary structure prediction

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 25-41

  Wiese, Kay C ^a   Deschenes, Alain A ^b   Hendriks, Andrew G ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

Author keywords

Evolutionary computation; RNA secondary structure prediction; RnaPredict

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FREE ENERGY; HYDROGEN BONDS;

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING ALGORITHM (DPA); SECONDARY STRUCTURE PREDICTION; SUBOPTIMAL STRUCTURES;

RNA;

RNA;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; HYDROGEN BOND; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BASE PAIRING; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; HUMANS; HYDROGEN BONDING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 38949193865     PISSN: 15455963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/tcbb.2007.1054     Document Type: Article

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