The determination of RNA folding nearest neighbor parameters

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 1097, Issue , 2014, Pages 45-70

  Andronescu, Mirela ^a   Condon, Anne ^a   Turner, Douglas H ^a   Mathews, David H ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Gibbs free energy; Nearest neighbor parameters; Optical melting experiment; RNA secondary structure

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ENERGY; HEAT; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MELTING POINT; NEAREST NEIGHBOR PARAMETERS; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA FOLDING; RNA STABILITY; RNA STRUCTURE; TEMPERATURE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; DATA BASE; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; RNA FOLDING; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84908555190     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-709-9__3     Document Type: Article

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