Predicting coaxial helical stacking in RNA junctions

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 487-498

  Laing, Christian ^a,b   Wen, Dongrong ^c   Wang, Jason T L ^c   Schlick, Tamar ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University Heights   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RANDOM FOREST; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATA MINING; DECISION TREES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED;

EID: 84862969708     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr629     Document Type: Article

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