Computing the partition function for kinetically trapped RNA secondary structures

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Lorenz, William A ^a   Clote, Peter ^b  

^a DENISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; ENTHALPY; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS; ALGORITHM; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFORMATION; INTERNET; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

RNA;

ALGORITHMS; BASE SEQUENCE; INTERNET; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; SOFTWARE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 79551535532     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016178     Document Type: Article

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