KnotSeeker: Heuristic pseudoknot detection in long RNA sequences

RNA

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 630-640

  Sperschneider, Jana ^a,b   Datta, Amitava ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamic programming; Heuristic algorithms; Minimum free energy; Minimum weight independent set; RNA pseudoknots; RNA structure prediction

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALGORITHMS; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; SOFTWARE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 41649104561     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.968808     Document Type: Article

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