The end-to-end distance of RNA as a randomly self-paired polymer

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 280, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 101-107

  Fang, Li Tai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Combinatorics

Indexed keywords

MONOMER; POLYMER; RANDOMLY SELF PAIRED POLYMER; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLYMER; RNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC DISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STRUCTURE; STRUCTURAL BIOINFORMATICS;

MODELS, CHEMICAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA;

EID: 79955515317     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.04.010     Document Type: Article

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