Clustering to identify RNA conformations constrained by secondary structure

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3590-3595

  Sim, Adelene Y L ^a   Levitt, Michael ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering; Riboswitches; RNA folding; RNA junctions; RNA structure prediction

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA SEQUENCE;

ADENINE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RIBOSWITCH; RNA; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 79952747147     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1018653108     Document Type: Article

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