Ab initio RNA folding by discrete molecular dynamics: From structure prediction to folding mechanisms

RNA

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1164-1173

  Ding, Feng ^a   Sharma, Shantanu ^a   Chalasani, Poornima ^b,c   Demidov, Vadim V ^b,c   Broude, Natalia E ^b,c   Dokholyan, Nikolay V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

3D RNA structure prediction; Discrete molecular dynamics; RNA folding

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATION; EXPERIMENTATION; KINETICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 44149101971     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.894608     Document Type: Article

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