NP-completeness of the direct energy barrier problem without pseudoknots

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5877 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 106-115

  Maňuch, Ján ^a   Thachuk, Chris ^b   Stacho, Ladislav ^a   Condon, Anne ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASE PAIRS; BIOLOGICAL SETTINGS; FOLDING PATHWAY; MOLECULAR SYSTEMS; NP COMPLETE; NP-COMPLETENESS; PSEUDO-KNOTS; RNA MOLECULES; SECONDARY STRUCTURES;

CALCULATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SCIENCE; DNA; ENERGY BARRIERS; GENES; GENETIC PROGRAMMING; RNA; SUGAR (SUCROSE);

NUCLEIC ACIDS;

EID: 71549170506     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-10604-0_11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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