NASP: A parallel program for identifying evolutionarily conserved nucleic acid secondary structures from nucleotide sequence alignments

Bioinformatics

Volumn 27, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 2443-2445

  Semegni, J Y ^a   Wamalwa, M ^b   Gaujoux, R ^a   Harkins, G W ^b   Gray, A ^a   Martin, D P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFORMATION; DNA SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

DNA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOTIDES; RNA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 80051916204     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr417     Document Type: Article

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