Finding consensus stable local optimal structures for aligned RNA sequences and its application to discovering riboswitch elements

International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications

Volumn 10, Issue 4-5, 2014, Pages 498-518

  Li, Yuan ^a   Zhong, Cuncong ^a   Zhang, Shaojie ^a  

^a University of Central Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Riboswitch; RNA consensus secondary structure; RNA energy landscape; RNA stable local optimal structure

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; RIBOSWITCH; RNA;

ALGORITHM; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROCEDURES; RIBOSWITCH; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RIBOSWITCH; RNA; RNA, BACTERIAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 84904018667     PISSN: 17445485     EISSN: 17445493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBRA.2014.062997     Document Type: Article

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