Squaring theory with practice in RNA design

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 457-466

  Bida, J P ^a,b   Das, Rijhu ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOMATERIAL; RNA;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GEOMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STABILITY; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALS; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA;

EID: 84865302512     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2012.06.003     Document Type: Review

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