Elastic network models for RNA: A comparative assessment with molecular dynamics and SHAPE experiments

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 43, Issue 15, 2015, Pages 7260-7269

  Pinamonti, Giovanni ^a   Bottaro, Sandro ^a   Micheletti, Cristian ^a   Bussi, Giovanni ^a  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAMMERHEAD RIBOZYME; RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELASTIC NETWORK MODEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RIBOSWITCH; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIMULATION; VALIDATION PROCESS; VALIDITY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFORMATION; OSMOLARITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; RNA;

EID: 84941122318     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv708     Document Type: Article

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