RNAbor -- a web server for RNA structural neighbors
What you can do:
Compute structural neighbors of an RNA secondary structure.
Highlights:
- RNAbor provides a new tool for researchers in the biological and related sciences to explore important aspects of RNA secondary structure and folding pathways.
- RNAbor computes statistics concerning delta-neighbors of a given input RNA sequence and structure (the structure can, for example, be the minimum free energy (MFE) structure).
- A delta-neighbor is a structure that differs from the input structure by exactly delta base pairs, that is, it can be obtained from the input structure by adding and/or removing exactly delta base pairs.
- For each distance delta RNAbor computes the density of delta-neighbors, the number of delta-neighbors, and the MFE structure, or MFE (delta) structure, among all delta-neighbors.
- RNAbor can be used to study possible folding pathways, to determine alternate low-energy structures, to predict potential nucleation sites and to explore structural neighbors of an intermediate, biologically active structure.
Keywords:
- Cluster Analysis
- Conserved Sequence
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Nucleic Acid Conformation
- RNA
- Untranslated RNA
- Regulatory Sequences
- Sequence Alignment
- Sequence Analysis
- Sequence Homology
- RNA structure
- RNA secondary structure
- RNA folding pathways
Literature & Tutorials:
PubMed Link: RNAbor: a web server for RNA structural neighbors
This record last updated: 06-04-2008