UNAFold: Software for nucleic acid folding and hybridization

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 453, Issue , 2008, Pages 3-31

  Markham, Nicholas R ^a   Zuker, Michael ^b  

^a Xerox Litigation Services

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Free energy minimization; Melting temperature; Nucleic acid hybridization; Nucleic acid melting profiles (or DNA melting profiles); Partition functions; RNA folding

Indexed keywords

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EID: 84934438960     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60327-429-6_1     Document Type: Article

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