A faster algorithm for simultaneous alignment and folding of RNA

Journal of Computational Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1051-1065

  Ziv Ukelson, Michal ^a   Gat Viks, Irit ^b   Wexler, Ydo ^c   Shamir, Ron ^d  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Algorithms; computational molecular biology; RNA; secondary structure; sequence analysis

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ECONOMICS; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 77956077195     PISSN: 10665277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cmb.2009.0197     Document Type: Article

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