Computational approaches to RNA structure prediction, analysis, and design

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 306-318

  Laing, Christian ^a   Schlick, Tamar ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APTAMER; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA; RNA 16S; RNA 23S; RNA 5S; TRANSFER RNA; VIRUS RNA;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PREDICTION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; INTERACTIONS WITH RNA; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RIBOSWITCH; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA FOLDING; RNA RNA INTERACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; WEB BROWSER;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; HUMANS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 79958073354     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2011.03.015     Document Type: Review

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