RNAmutants: A web server to explore the mutational landscape of RNA secondary structures

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2009, Pages

  Waldispühl, Jerome ^a   Devadas, Srinivas ^a,b   Berger, Bonnie ^a   Clote, Peter ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^c BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ARTICLE; CLIENT SERVER APPLICATION; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENOME; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; RNA SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; WEB BROWSER;

INTERNET; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; POINT MUTATION; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 67849088722     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp477     Document Type: Article

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