A new entropy model for RNA: Part I. A critique of the standard Jacobson-Stockmayer model applied to multiple cross links

Journal of Nucleic Acids Investigation

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Dawson, Wayne ^a   Yamamoto, Kenji ^b   Kawai, Gota ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c CHIBA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Entropy; Protein folding; RNA folding; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

POLYMER; RNA;

ARTICLE; CROSS LINKING; ENTROPY; JACOBSON STOCKMAYER MODEL; MACHINE LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PHASE TRANSITION; PREDICTION; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA HYBRIDIZATION; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84868024334     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20356005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/jnai.2012.e3     Document Type: Article

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