Rtools: a web server for various secondary structural analyses on single RNA sequences.

ABSTRACT: The secondary structures, as well as the nucleotide sequences, are the important features of RNA molecules to characterize their functions. According to the thermodynamic model, however, the probability of any secondary structure is very small. As a consequence, any tool to predict the secondary structures of RNAs has limited accuracy. On the other hand, there are a few tools to compensate the imperfect predictions by calculating and visualizing the secondary structural information from RNA sequences. It is desirable to obtain the rich information from those tools through a friendly interface. We implemented a web server of the tools to predict secondary structures and to calculate various structural features based on the energy models of secondary structures. By just giving an RNA sequenc

SUBMITTER: Hamada M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4987903 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature