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  • noun genetics A secondary structure in RNA in which half of one stem is intercalated between the two halves of another stem.

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pseudo- +‎ knot

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  • We show that Inv allows to design in particular 3-noncrossing nonplanar RNA pseudoknot 3-noncrossing RNA structures - a class which is difficult to construct via dynamic programming routines.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles 2010

  • INFO-RNA are limited to RNA secondary structures, we present in this paper the inverse folding algorithm Inv which can deal with 3-noncrossing, canonical pseudoknot structures.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles 2010

  • The algorithm Inv extends inverse folding capabilities to RNA pseudoknot structures.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles 2010

  • Bruenn JA (1992) Ribosomal movement impeded at a pseudoknot required for frameshifting.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

  • The HDV Rz folds into a model pseudoknot secondary structure in which substrate recognition is based solely on the formation of the P1 stem, a stem that involves only 7 base pairs (bp) (

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Michel V. L�vesque et al. 2010

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