Vfold: A web server for RNA structure and folding thermodynamics prediction

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Xu, Xiaojun ^a   Zhao, Peinan ^a   Chen, Shi Jie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA STRUCTURE; ENTROPY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HEAT; MELTING POINT; MODEL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSICS; PREDICTION; RNA FOLDING; RNA STRUCTURE; THERMODYNAMICS; UNITED STATES; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFORMATION; HUMAN; INTERNET; PROTEIN DATABASE; RNA STABILITY;

RNA;

DATABASES, PROTEIN; HUMANS; INTERNET; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; RNA FOLDING; RNA STABILITY; SOFTWARE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84923602610     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0107504     Document Type: Article

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