Exhaustive enumeration of kinetic model topologies for the analysis of time-resolved RNA folding

Algorithms

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 200-214

  Martin, Joshua S ^a   Simmons, Katrina ^a   Laederach, Alain ^a,b  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

.OH radical footprinting; Distributed computing; Kinetic modeling; RNA folding; Tetrahymena thermophila group I intron

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960444497     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/a2010200     Document Type: Article

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