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. 2003 Jul 1;31(13):3429-31.
doi: 10.1093/nar/gkg599.

Vienna RNA secondary structure server

Ivo L Hofacker  1
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Vienna RNA secondary structure server

Ivo L Hofacker. Nucleic Acids Res. .

Abstract

The Vienna RNA secondary structure server provides a web interface to the most frequently used functions of the Vienna RNA software package for the analysis of RNA secondary structures. It currently offers prediction of secondary structure from a single sequence, prediction of the consensus secondary structure for a set of aligned sequences and the design of sequences that will fold into a predefined structure. All three services can be accessed via the Vienna RNA web server at http://rna.tbi.univie.ac.at/.

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Figure 1
Three representations for secondary structure and structure ensembles as produced by the RNAfold service: structure graph, mountain plot and dot plot. As can be seen clearly in the dot plot, the sequence has two almost equally good but very dissimilar foldings.
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