BayesFold: Rational 2° folds that combine thermodynamic, covariation; and chemical data for aligned RNA sequences

RNA

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1323-1336

  Knight, Rob ^a   Birmingham, Amanda ^a   Yarus, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Chemical mapping; Covariation; In vitro selection; Mutual information; Probability; SELEX

Indexed keywords

RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BAYES THEOREM; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERNET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; INTERNET; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SOFTWARE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 4344641945     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.5168504     Document Type: Article

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