Efficient in silico exploration of RNA interhelical conformations using Euler angles and WExplore

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 12126-12137

  Dickson, Alex ^a   Mustoe, Anthony M ^a   Salmon, Löic ^a   Brooks, Charles L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; EULER SPACE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIGAND BINDING; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA CONFORMATION; SIMULATION; SPACE NETWORK; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT;

VIRUS RNA;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HIV LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; HIV-1; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 84922619526     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku799     Document Type: Article

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