Predicting the sizes of large RNA molecules

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 42, 2008, Pages 16153-16158

  Yoffe, Aron M ^a   Prinsen, Peter ^a   Gopal, Ajaykumar ^a   Knobler, Charles M ^a   Gelbart, William M ^a   Ben Shaul, Avinoam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Branched polymer; Ladder distance; Radius of gyration; Secondary structure; Viral RNA

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; RNA;

ARTICLE; GENOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; VIRUS; VIRUS CAPSID;

BASE SEQUENCE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA;

MIRIDAE;

EID: 55849126359     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0808089105     Document Type: Article

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