Folding kinetics of riboswitch transcriptional terminators and sequesterers

Entropy

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 3088-3099

  Sauerwine, Ben ^a   Widom, Michael ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Folding; Hairpin; Kinetic; Monte carlo; Nucleic acids; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884179119     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e15083088     Document Type: Article

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