Computational approaches for RNA energy parameter estimation

RNA

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2304-2318

  Andronescu, Mirela ^a   Condon, Anne ^b   Hoos, Holger H ^b   Mathews, David H ^c   Murphy, Kevin P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

RNA free energy models; RNA free energy parameter estimation; RNA free energy parameters; RNA secondary structure prediction; RNA thermodynamic models

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA HYBRIDIZATION; RNA STRUCTURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ENERGY METABOLISM; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 78649653300     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.1950510     Document Type: Article

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