Turning limited experimental information into 3D models of RNA

RNA

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1769-1778

  Flores, Samuel Coulbourn ^a   Altman, Russ B ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational; Constraint; Folding; Internal coordinates; Structure prediction

Indexed keywords

RIBOZYME; RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; TETRAHYMENA; ALGORITHM; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; YEAST;

ALGORITHMS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; RNA, CATALYTIC; RNA, TRANSFER; TETRAHYMENA; YEASTS;

EID: 77956026060     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.2112110     Document Type: Article

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