From knotted to nested RNA structures: A variety of computational methods for pseudoknot removal

RNA

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 410-416

  Smit, Sandra ^a,b   Rother, Kristian ^c   Heringa, Jaap ^a   Knight, Rob ^d  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Centre for Medical Systems Biology   (Netherlands)

^c INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Pseudoknot; RNA; RNA structure

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; BASE PAIRING; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

RNA;

ALGORITHMS; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA;

EID: 40449086374     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.881308     Document Type: Article

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