Random generation of RNA secondary structures according to native distributions

Algorithms for Molecular Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Nebel, Markus E ^a   Scheid, Anika ^a   Weinberg, Frank ^a  

^a University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

Random generation; RNA secondary structures; Stochastic context free grammars

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053914024     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17487188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-7188-6-24     Document Type: Article

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