Unifying evolutionary and thermodynamic information for RNA folding of multiple alignments

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 36, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 6355-6362

  Seeman, Stefan E ^a   Gorodkin, Jan ^a   Backofen, Rolf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; SINGLE STRANDED RNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ALGORITHM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILISTIC EVOLUTIONARY AND THERMODYNAMIC FOLDING ALGORITHM; PROBABILITY; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALGORITHMS; BASE PAIRING; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RNA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 56649099274     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn544     Document Type: Article

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