RNA molecules with structure dependent functions are uniquely folded
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RNA molecules with structure dependent functions are uniquely folded.
Cis-acting elements in post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression are often correlated with distinct local RNA secondary structure. These structures are expected to be significantly more ordered than those anticipated at random because of evolutionary constraints and intrinsic structural properties. In this study, we introduce a computing method to calculate two quantitative measures, N...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nucleic Acids Research
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1362-4962
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkf473