Computational and Experimental RNA Nanoparticle Design

Automation in Proteomics and Genomics: An Engineering Case-Based Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 193-220

  Severcan, Isil ^a   Geary, Cody ^a   Jaeger, Luc ^a   Bindewald, Eckart ^c   Kasprzak, Wojciech ^c   Shapiro, Bruce A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational approaches for automation; Human insights from experimentation into heuristic rules; Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) data; Rational design of RNA nanoparticles; Ribonucleic acid (RNA) polymeric chain; RNA nanoparticle assembly characterization using classical biochemical methods; RNA synthetic biology, nanobiology and architectonics; Three dimensional RNA designs and further optimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 58549095416     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470741191.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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