Correlation between nucleotide composition and folding energy of coding sequences with special attention to wobble bases

Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling

Volumn 5, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Biro, Jan C ^a  

^a Homulus Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEIC ACID; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN; RNA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CODON; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENERGY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; BASE COMPOSITION; CODON; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, PROTEIN; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACIDS; NUCLEOTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS; RNA; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 49649090451     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17424682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-4682-5-14     Document Type: Article

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