PicXAA-R: Efficient structural alignment of multiple RNA sequences using a greedy approach

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 12, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Sahraeian, Sayed Mohammad Ebrahim ^a   Yoon, Byung Jun ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEDY APPROACHES; LIVING ORGANISMS; LOCAL SIMILARITY; MULTIPLE SEQUENCES; NON-CODING RNAS; PROTEIN SEQUENCE ALIGNMENTS; RNA SEQUENCES; STRUCTURAL ALIGNMENTS;

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGY; BIOINFORMATICS;

NUCLEIC ACIDS;

UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BASE PAIRING; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 79951529676     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-12-S1-S38     Document Type: Article

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