New techniques for analysing RNA structure

Acknowledgement I would like to thank my supervisor Vincent Moulton for many interesting discussions and ideas, for giving me the opportunity to travel and meet interesting people and collaborators, and for introducing me to the field of RNA. I would also like to thank all my coworkers; David Ardell for helpful advice and discussions and for taking over the load of being my supervisor; Sverker Ed-vardsson for his interesting ideas and advice on snoRNA fishing; Paul Gardner for fruitful discussions and advice on various aspects of RNA; Mats Gustafsson for his enthusiasm and many interesting and fruitful discussions; Anthony Poole for his biological knowledge in general, his advice on snoRNAs in particular, and for valuable proofreading of this thesis; Tore Samuelsson for his supervision and advice in the beginning of my PhD studies. I would also like to show my gratitude to Robert Giegrich and Peter Stadler for letting me come and visit their respective laboratories. I am grateful to all my colleagues at LCB for making my work place an interesting and inspiring environment. In particular, I would like to thank my room mates, Johan Kåhrström and Alice Lesser, for many interesting discussions. Finally, I would like to thank my family and friends for their support, in particular Pontus Freyhult for his always available computer support, advice on programming , and proofreading of selected parts of this thesis.