Evolutionary triplet models of structured RNA

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Bradley, Robert K ^a   Holmes, Ian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; CONTEXT FREE GRAMMARS; DECODING; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FORMAL LANGUAGES; INFERENCE ENGINES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TRANSDUCERS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

ALIGNMENT ALGORITHMS; BIOINFORMATIC METHODS; MA XIMUM LIKELIHOODS; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD; MODELING OF STRUCTURED; MULTIPLE SEQUENCES; PALEOGENETICS; SIMPLE MODELING; STATISTICAL FRAMEWORK; STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION;

RNA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PHYLOGENY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; RNA STRUCTURE; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROBABILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

RNA;

ALGORITHMS; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHYLOGENY; RNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 70049104879     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000483     Document Type: Article

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