Computational approaches toward the design of pools for the in vitro selection of complex aptamers

RNA

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2252-2262

  Luo, Xuemei ^a   Mckeague, Maureen ^a   Pitre, Sylvain ^a   Dumontier, Michel ^a   Green, James ^a   Golshani, Ashkan ^a   Derosa, Maria C ^a   Dehne, Frank ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aptamer pool design; ATP aptamer; Genetic algorithm; In vitro selection; Random pool; RNA DNA secondary structure

Indexed keywords

APTAMER;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; IN VITRO STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; TECHNIQUE;

APTAMERS, NUCLEOTIDE; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION;

EID: 78149314215     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.2102210     Document Type: Article

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